Suppression and Subjugation of Women in Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe

  Km.Rashmi

Anita Nair is a prolific Indian writer. She is one of the finest women writers in Indian writing in English. As a woman writer, she has a deep knowledge of women psyche. She goes into depth, in their psychological mind and brings to light their issues. Though she has refused to be labelled as a feminist. But when we go through the story of her bestselling novel Ladies Coupe, we find that it's a tale of women's suppression and subjugation in patriarchal society. It's a story-telling of six women characters and their experiences in a male-dominated society. Akhila, the protagonist of the novel, who takes a train journey, meets five different women characters-Janaki, Prabha Devi, Margaret Shanthi, Sheela Vasudevan and Marikolunthu. On their way they all share their life experiences with each other. Ladies Coupe is a story of women's search for independence and self-identity. The aim of the present paper is to show the subjugation of women character in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe. And at the same time it raises a question whether a woman can live happily without a man?

Keywords- Self-identity, freedom, sub-alternity, submission of women.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1904002
Page Number(s) - 7-9
Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 4 | October 2019
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Km.Rashmi,   "Suppression and Subjugation of Women in Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.7, Issue 4, pp.7-9, October 2019, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1904002.pdf