School of Social Sciences and Languages

The study purveys the hybrid nature of the first generation of settlers in The Immigrant. Manju Kapur has imbibed the bourgeois characteristics in the characters like Ananda, Dr Sharma and Nina. Identity crisis, a quest for self-identity and a contrast in Indian and Canadian style of living is predominantly evidenced in the novel, which leads to the idea of third place. This paper significantly identifies an unquenchable need for third places in the immigrants. The findings are of two parts: the first part identifies the hybrid qualities of the characters and the second part of the paper spots the need for third places in the characters. Further study correlates the characteristics of the Third Places with the places found in the novel by stating those as a source of elevation from the clutches of westernisation. The amalgamation of Hybridity and ‘Third Places’ theories dissect the novel whereby justifies the title of the paper.

The study illustrates that sexual harassment endured by women, is no way related with their class, position, hierarchy, culture, place or security. Jasoda contributes to this research by exhibiting the women characters belonging to varied societal standards undergoing abuse and oppression regardless of the hierarchal structure. The author surprises the readers by drafting women characters with self-determined characteristics and stooping to bear the patriarchal pressure exerted over them. The study throws light on the complex psychic behaviour of the independent woman protagonist, successful in sustaining herself and the family all by her own, yet subduing to her husband’s patriarchal oppression. Patriarchy steps forward in every situation where women are objectified or animalised. The paper further studies the animalisation and mechanisation of the female body by the male patriarch and also focuses on the breakage of stereotypes, built by the patriarchal power, over women society a...

South Korean culture has its roots embedded and embodied in the doctrines of Confucius. Thus, its society follows patriarchal lineage and subjugates the female community in terms of education, employment, parenthood and so on. Even though there are laws assuring women's equality, the customs and practices demand women to stick with the domestic roles that Confucianism promoted. Moreover, Korea is one of the countries where the largest number of cosmetic surgeries happen along with strict oblique rules such as, a girl should not exceed her weight over 50kg and she should have flawless skin, etc. When many are comfortable with these societal rules, a few fights against all the commoditisation of the female body. Korean women start to use film, literature and art as a platform to question the gender inequality prevailing around them. This article undertakes a theoretical analysis of the Booker-Prize winning South Korean novel, The Vegetarian (2016), written by Han Kang, using Deleuzian concept of Body without Organs (BwO) to study how the protagonist Yeong-hye uses her body as a weapon for self-expression and freedom from the conservative South Korean patriarchal powers.