• V.Sharmila
• Dr.K.Sivakumar

The parallelism drawn between postmodernism and feminism is manifested in both their agenda to undermine all totalizing experience, the metanarratives and to create a new space for pluralism, marginality and difference. Both these ideologies were committed to deconstruct the false universal hierarchies of values. Both postmodernism and feminism challenge the monolithic definition of truth. Modeled on postmodernism’s refutation of unitary self, feminist too constantly engaged in reshaping the consciousness of the self. The fluid relationship between a women writer and the language prevents the prioritisation and actualization of the self. The primary concern of feminist critics is to problematize the ubiquitous metanarrative, ‘patriarchy’ which they identify as the most functional and dominating system in our civilization. Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison as feminist writers do challenge the rules and conventions of writing and of society in general. Their novels are feminist social satire, and mock the institutionalized methods of marginalizing and disempowering women. So they both effectively deploy postmodern fictional strategies that subvert the hierarchization of binary logic that is deep rooted in all pervasive patriarchal system.

Feminism, Pomodernism, Metanarrative, Subjectivity, Patriarchy, Marginality, Subversion)

"A POSTMODERN FEMINISTIC INSCRIPTION OF NEW SELFHOOD IN THE NOVELS OF MARGARET ATWOOOD AND TONI MORRISON. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.118-123, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06032.pdf

"A POSTMODERN FEMINISTIC INSCRIPTION OF NEW SELFHOOD IN THE NOVELS OF MARGARET ATWOOOD AND TONI MORRISON. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp118-123, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06032.pdf