A Comparative Reading of Kamala Das’ “Marine Drive” and Sarah Joseph’s “The Masc. of ‘Virgin’” from the Postmodern Perspective

Abstract

Gender discrimination consistently plagues our social fabric down through the ages. Marginalization of women persists as a perennial problem. This paper is an attempt to explore how the two Keralite feminist writers, Kamala Das and Sarah Joseph, use postmodern techniques in their stories, “Marine Drive” and “The Masc. of ‘Virgin’” respectively.  Both the authors in question, being feminists, have dealt with various problems faced by women and the stories chosen here for study are no exceptions.  This paper seeks to highlight the various postmodern traits that feature in these two stories. These feminist writers have employed postmodern techniques which have given them a wider space and scope to express their thoughts and ideas. This paper discusses in detail how these like-minded authors have made these stories laboratories of postmodernism.