Redefining Feminism through Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India

Abstract

Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee is an attention-grabbing and engrossing work as far as engagement with diverse images of women is concerned. Her writings offer a full range of experience of the emerging Indian woman who though rooted in customs, is strongly dedicated to re-defining her role and her connection to various associations of the society in the light of modern thought and consciousness. One can find in her works identification and admiration of the prospective of ‘self-contained individuality of woman’ with all its anguish, conflicts and challenges. Bharati Mukherjee’s writings re-define the feminism and reject to yield before the conservative dominance of conventional society and suppression