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

• Authors: Daniela Rogobete
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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

Keywords

EN

humanism; politics of representation; social archetypes; strategies of containment

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 120-125

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Daniela Rogobete

• University of Craiova

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0015