Hence, decided to look at the Gender perspectives in the Telugu & English novels of South Indian writers. Most of the research work have been done on English, Hindi, Urdu, Panjabi and other language fictions but not on Southern Languages i.e. They compressed the situation of the modern woman and their writings reflected a variety of shades, colours and visions of gender. Indian women writers have deliberately sought the novel as their medium of expression with a strong element of protest. After the gender revolution in 1970s, in Indian literature writing by women about women has become a socio-political act. This essay aims to investigate the following research question: How and in what ways are physical locations used to convey relations between human beings with each other and higher powers, as well as the ways the past influences the present? The investigation will be based on finding similar themes and motifs in 'The God…' and 'Primeval…' that, although very different in their narrative structure and their temporal and spatial setting (set, respectively, in Kerala, India, and Poland), both comment on the relationship between individuals and the locations in which they are placed.Īge-old social barriers were very strong and it was impossible to break them at a stretch. Both Roy and Tokarczuk show distinctions between bigger, universal locations (culture, religion, as well as literal, physical geopolitical places) and smaller, much more personal ones – with the latter also taking the form of human relations.

At the same time, both novels concentrate on the importance of cultural and moral values, and the complicated psyche of human beings. These physical locations are conveyed in different ways, such as through the usage of vivid descriptions or, on the contrary, through parallels, minimalistic symbolism or metonymies. (International Baccalaureate Extended Essay) Though set in different cultural circumstances, the narrations of both Arundhati Roy’s 'The God of Small Things' and Olga Tokarczuk’s 'Primeval and Other Times' (though very distinct from each other) are strongly based around the physical locations in which the plots take place.

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