SUBVERSIVE FEMALE AGING IN MUNSHI PREMCHAND’S “BUDHI KAKI (THE OLD AUNTY)”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i1.2024.3381Keywords:
Literary Gerontology, Premchand, Indian Literature, Postmenopause Women, Marginalisation, SubversionAbstract [English]
The paper aims to dig beneath the contemporary apparent treatment met with female characters who have descended the peak time of their life i.e. teenage, adult, marriage and motherhood (post-menopausal phase of life) and stay at the periphery of the family and societal space and that the centre is occupied by those section of females who can voice out opinions, demand rights and protests against those who sideline them through careful study of Munshi Premchand’s The Old Aunt.
The paper explores the common defence strategies that includeincludees denial (the refusal to accept the upsetting reality), displacement (the directing of anger toward people or things that feel unthreatening) and sublimation (and distracting of one’s thoughts by engaging in physical or entertainment activity) and analyze the fissures and nuances present in the contemporary feminist studies that talk about power and equality to be shared between male and female and fails to actually acknowledge the violence and trauma inflicted to the females and which goes unnoticed as they find no seat but marginalized positions and find no recognition or place.
References
Anonymous. (n.d.). The Old Aunt. Retrieved April 20, 2024, from https://www.youthaffairz.in/premchand-boodhikaki1.html
Ansello, E. F. (1977). Age and Agism in Children’s First Literature. Education Gerontology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0360127770020305
Barnum, P. W. (1977). Discrimination Against the Aged in Young Children’s Literature. The Elementary School Journal, 301-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/461061
Beauvoir, S. (1972). The Coming of Age. New York: Putnam.
Hemingway, E. (1952). The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Lahiri, J. (1993). A Real Darwan and Other Stories. Boston University Press.
Robin, E. P. (1977). Old Age in Elementary School Education. Education Gerontology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0360127770020306
Sarton, M. (1973). As We Are Now. New York: Norton.
Sauvy, A. (1948). Social and Economic Consequences of the Ageing of Western European Populations. Population Studies, 115-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1948.10416342
Waxman, B. F. (1985). From Bildungsroman to Reifungroman: Aging in Doris Lessing’s Fiction. Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 318-34
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Sudiksha Singh
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
With the licence CC-BY, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute, and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author.
It is not necessary to ask for further permission from the author or journal board.
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
