• Dr. LIBERATA MARIA LUCAS

The universe is energy and man seems to create his/her own negatives or positive energy. If one goes against the flow, it creates friction. Fiction by women writers constitutes a major segment of contemporary writings in English. It provides an insights, a wealth of understanding,reservoir of meanings and a basis of discussion. One of the reasons that women have, in such a large number, taken up their pen is because it has allowed them to create their own world, free from the direct inference from men. Similarly, so many women have taken to reading of women’s writing. It has allowed a ‘safe place’ from which they can explore a wide range of experience of the world, from which they can identify with a range of characters and a variety of existence. Thus women’s writing has occupied such a significant and central place in women’s lives, it is also why women’s writing can share much the same disparaged status as women in the world dominated by men. Bharati Mukherjee’s novels range widely across time and space, dealing especially with the consequences that emerges out of culture and tradition of the East and West in the host countries. All her novels are female centered and the changing psyche of the protagonists, who hail from India. This paper focuses on the issues of marriage according to the Indian sensibility of parents, who consider it as their holy duty and how the female characters struggle to create an identify in their patriarchal society.

The universe is energy and man seems to create his/her own negatives or positive energy. If one goes against the flow, it creates friction. Fiction by women writers constitutes a major segment of contemporary writings in English. It provides an insights, a wealth of understanding,reservoir of meanings and a basis of discussion. One of the reasons that women have, in such a large number, taken up their pen is because it has allowed them to create their own world, free from the direct inference from men. Similarly, so many women have taken to reading of women’s writing. It has allowed a ‘safe place’ from which they can explore a wide range of experience of the world, from which they can identify with a range of characters and a variety of existence. Thus women’s writing has occupied such a significant and central place in women’s lives, it is also why women’s writing can share much the same disparaged status as women in the world dominated by men. Bharati Mukherjee’s novels range widely across time and space, dealing especially with the consequences that emerges out of culture and tradition of the East and West in the host countries. All her novels are female centered and the changing psyche of the protagonists, who hail from India. This paper focuses on the issues of marriage according to the Indian sensibility of parents, who consider it as their holy duty and how the female characters struggle to create an identify in their patriarchal society.

" CONCEPT OF INDIAN MARRIAGES AND WOMEN IDENTITY IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.35-38, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06011.pdf

" CONCEPT OF INDIAN MARRIAGES AND WOMEN IDENTITY IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp35-38, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06011.pdf