• Aswathy G Nath

Perumal Murugan, the contemporary Indian writer, has introduced new facets to the literary world through his novels, short stories, and poems. His writings are famous for portraying the social issues of the common man. Through his novels he unfolds the age-old traditions of perspectives in the Tamil literary milieu. The present paper is an analysis and explanation of Bakhtin’s concepts of Carnivalism and grotesque realism in Murugan’s One Part Woman. One Part Woman, the English translation of Murugan’s iconoclastic novel Madhorubhagan, is set on the outskirts of Tamilnadu. It narrates the story of a childless agrarian couple Kali and Ponna. They perform some rituals based on superstition at the Chariot Festival of their native temple, which later destroys their marriage. Festival/Carnival is a season of merry making without limitations. Here society subverts the social norms which govern gender relations at least temporarily. They counteract the normal, the social hierarchies are dissolved, and the sacred and the profane are mixed.

Perumal Murugan, Carnivalism, Bakhtin, Superstitions, Rules, Family.

"Counteracting the Normal: The Carnivalesque in Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no.f225-f229, May-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205635.pdf

"Counteracting the Normal: The Carnivalesque in Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no. ppf225-f229, May-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205635.pdf