Female Victimization and Memes of Resurrection in Select Novels of Kishwar Desai

Abstract

The world and its ways are always changing. This rapid change sometimes result in
deterioration of values. The role of women in Indian society is undergoing sea change from the
time immemorial. Even though there are many laws in India to protect women, life of a female
is always under a threat. Kishwar Desai, one among the modern Indian novelists portrays the
real plight of Indian women in her novels. A Woman’s body has become a commodity, which
is marketed and sold. InWitness the Night, The Sea of Innocence and Origins of Love, Desai
narrates victimization of females in many ways. The article entitled “Female Victimization and
Memes of Resurrection in Select Novels of Kishwar Desai” is a study on how women are
subjected to exploitations and how another group emerges as a protest against it. The pathetic
endurance of a group of women which designed the tradition of Indian society is losing its
structure and gives birth to a new group which is capable of denying and refusing all the limits
of womanhood. The article focuses on Desai’s talent in using her protagonists as
representatives of these new changes and analyses the change that occurred to their status in
society.