• P.V. BEENA
• Dr.T.VASANTHAKUMARI

Literature is an important element which connects individuals to the society through fictionalized ideas in the changing scenario. Various customs, beliefs, traditions, values are continuously and cumulatively expressed in literature. The Post modern literature is marked as a period that identifies loosely with the Progressive Era and Enlightenment. It is defined with ideology, style and various movements and ideas taken from postmodern philosophy. It is clearly and explicitly visible that the human spirit in literature links with imaginative experience. The Universal reality in the contemporary world is shown through the horizon leading to transitional space and liberation. Indian English Literature has been developing but the Indian women writers were undervalued due to some patriarchal assumptions. Gradually Indian women novelists started taking new dimensions and finding significant place in the field of literature. In the name of culture, women were left behind conveniently in the spheres of education, literature, and philosophy. The women were in stake to express and to manifest their intellectual caliber and potential. Steadily the changing conditions brought women writers to the forefront. One among them is Anita Nair who has emerged as one of India’s popular female writers. Her theme of new being, human relationship and position of women in the context of the contemporary world is highly commendable. Her novel Ladies coupe is a novel about female identity and female space depicted in regard to the dreams, hopes, desires, fears, disappointments, failures and deviations in life. In the disguise of culture the characters play their role in a self convincing manner to reconstruct and to rise with the counterparts though in constraints.

Paramount, transitional, liberation, constraints.

"THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WOMEN IN ANITA NAIR’S “LADIES COUPE”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.716-719, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06152.pdf

"THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WOMEN IN ANITA NAIR’S “LADIES COUPE”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp716-719, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06152.pdf