• SRUTHI R N
• Dr.Malathi.R

Historic stereotypical images were out of fashion when machoism and anti-heroism invaded literary circles through adventure novels, in which pirates can also be heroes. Similarly, when women had no history, stereotypical images of austere wife, lonely mother and deserted lady-love were celebrated. Sufferings were invoked through tragic novels. Gradually, after the registration and exposure of recent history in terms of women’s everyday lives, women writers began exploring the psychological musings of women’s conscience. Githa Hariharan is one among renowned women writers who is known for her unique narrative techniques. She explores Devi’s (the protagonist) conscience that strives between conservative bounds and boundless imaginations in her debut novel The Thousand Faces of Night (1992). This paper attempts at extracting the rudimentary elements of the novel: psychological quests and imaginations that revolve to define womanhood.

psyche, quest, imagination, feminism, womanhood

" The Thousand Faces of Night: A Combination of Quests and Imaginations to Interrogate the Mythical Tradition of Indian Womanhood", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no.d370-d373, March-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403344.pdf

" The Thousand Faces of Night: A Combination of Quests and Imaginations to Interrogate the Mythical Tradition of Indian Womanhood", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no. ppd370-d373, March-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403344.pdf