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- Title
The New Emergent Women in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and Anita Rau Badami's The Hero's Walk.
- Authors
Sonthalia, Sujata
- Abstract
Manju Kapur and Anita Rau Badami have been widely recognised as great and distinguished writers of English literary world. Kapur's debut novel Difficult Daughters earned Commonwealth Writers' Award, the best first book, in Europe and South Asia in 1999. It earned her success in India as well as abroad. Badami received esteemed literary awards including the Regional Commonwealth Best Book Prize in the Canada/Caribbean Region, for her second book The Hero's Walk. The award-winning novels Difficult Daughters and The Hero's Walk are taken for study to examine the creative odyssey of Anita Rau Badami and Manju Kapur. Nirmala and Virmati, the protagonists of The Hero's Walk and Difficult Daughters are respectively studied in the article to appreciate how they have become victorious and succeeded in representing the new incarnation of women.
- Subjects
DIFFICULT Daughters (Book); HERO'S Walk, The (Book); KAPUR, Manju; BADAMI, Anita Rau; WOMEN in literature; MARITAL communication
- Publication
Language in India, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 9, p65
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article