• Firdous Ahmad Dar
• Dr. Priti Bhatt

Doris Lessing is one of the revolutionary novelists of modern English fiction. Her writings enlarge the boundaries of fiction, experiment with different genres, and discover the world of Africa and Europe. Lessing’s writing is usually a traumatic narrative of the marginalized women, who fight constantly against estrangement and subordination to seek their legitimate place in a hostile culture. The deep-rooted commonness of oppression and suffering is fundamental in the lives of her female characters. The alienation and identity crises are global problems; she has taken these problems and issues as the primary themes. In an alienated western society, she discusses the problems faced by immigrants. Isolation is often used in modern literature to express the sense of aloofness of an individual towards society and nature.

Traumatic Narrative, Marginalized women, Subordination, Oppression.

"Oppressor and the Oppressed: A Postcolonial Reading of Female Marginalization in the Select Novels of Doris Lessing", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.1010-1017, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U30.pdf

"Oppressor and the Oppressed: A Postcolonial Reading of Female Marginalization in the Select Novels of Doris Lessing", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp1010-1017, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U30.pdf