• Kangkan Bhuyan
• Dr. Sivasish Biswas

Third space in the context of the selected fiction of Arun Joshi namely The Last Labyrinth and The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, and Amitav Ghosh, namely The Shadow Lines and Sea of Poppies, functions as an in-between hybrid space which facilitates marginal and voiceless female characters to reclaim their lost voices and rebel against the tyranny of patriarchy. Contrary to its earlier iterations, space has come to be thought of as something that is a result of human activity. Third space is used to denote a third existential dimension that arises when people find themselves in a space that simultaneously is and is not one’s home. Such situations manifest externally as seen in physical up-rootedness and displacement due to migration, and also internally as seen in various conflicts in personality, character and nurturing multiple worldviews. Hybridity is one of the prime factors responsible for such manifestations as seen in the women characters of Arun Joshi and Amitav Ghosh and this paper negotiates their situations in the context of third space.

third space, hybridity, liminality, female, suppression, marginality

"'Women in Third Space': Liminality of Female Characters in Selected Fiction of Arun Joshi and Amitav Ghosh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.295-297, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905M49.pdf

"'Women in Third Space': Liminality of Female Characters in Selected Fiction of Arun Joshi and Amitav Ghosh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp295-297, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905M49.pdf