<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper dwells upon Kamala Markandaya’s construction of motherhood in postindependence rural India as depicted in her 1955 novel, “Nectar in a Sieve”. Caught between changing times, between colonial and postcolonial paradigms, perennial traditions and shifting values, different world views and cultural systems, Markandaya’s main character finds solace and strength in her philosophy of hope and endurance</p></abstract>

This paper dwells upon Kamala Markandaya’s construction of motherhood in postindependence rural India as depicted in her 1955 novel, “Nectar in a Sieve”. Caught between changing times, between colonial and postcolonial paradigms, perennial traditions and shifting values, different world views and cultural systems, Markandaya’s main character finds solace and strength in her philosophy of hope and endurance

A Mother’S Plight – Fear and Hope in Kamala Markandaya’S Nectar in a Sieve

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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This paper dwells upon Kamala Markandaya’s construction of motherhood in postindependence rural India as depicted in her 1955 novel, “Nectar in a Sieve”....

A Mother’S Plight – Fear and Hope in Kamala Markandaya’S Nectar in a Sieve

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 120 - 125

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0015

Keywords
humanism, politics of representation, social archetypes, strategies of containment

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Mother’S Plight – Fear and Hope in Kamala Markandaya’S Nectar in a Sieve

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 120 - 125

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0015

Keywordshumanism, politics of representation, social archetypes, strategies of containment

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
humanism, politics of representation, social archetypes, strategies of containment