Anita Nair’s Ladies coupe: Women’s suffering, emancipation and self discovery

Vol-4 | Issue-11 | November 2019 | Published Online: 16 November 2019    PDF ( 187 KB )
Author(s)
Mistry Radhikaben Mahendrabai 1

1Research Scholar, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat (India)

Abstract

Anita Nair is famous postmodern Indian English writer. Her novel Ladies coupe explores the experiences of different women by journey. This novel main theme is self discovery from the subjugation of Indian male dominated society. Here Ladies coupe means reserved compartment of ladies in train. In post colonial period most of novels written about women’s emancipation and their issues in Indian society. In Indian society male believed to them superior and inferior to ladies and overwhelm to them. Indian English fiction is the reflection of society. This paper focuses on women’s suffering, emancipation and at last their self discovery.

Keywords
women’s suffering, emancipation, feminism, self discovery.
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