Author :SHIVANI VASHIST
Date of Publication :7/30/2011
Description :
Manju Kapur , a professor at Miranda House for English in Delhi, has recently emerged as a new novelist in the world of Indian English Fiction. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters published in 1998 received the Commonwealth Award for the Eurasian region. She has vividly painted the inner turmoil of her female protagonists in her two novels, Difficult Daughters and Home. Manju Kapur has indeed created sensation in the literary world by voicing the inner tribulations of her protagonists in an emphatic manner. Though much has been spoken about her feministic concern and treatment of gender issues in her novels. My paper throws light on the shuttle of her female protagonists from a feeling of homelessness to a home.