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Paper short abstract:

Indian women's predicament in society and their depiction in literature have been juxtaposed both in theory, practice and perceptions of new methodology and strategies in feminist narrative practice and their subversions in psychosexual and social constructs.

Paper long abstract:

The research paper probes into Indian women's predicament in South Asian society with respect to the issue of migration and diasporic consequences in the framework of contact linguistics and aims at their depiction in literature both in theory and practice, fact and fiction, reality and myth.

The analysis leads to women writers' perceptions of new methodology and strategies in feminist narrative practice and their subversions of their resolutions to the ways of writing beyond the traditional ending critically evaluating and resolving key issues. Should the women willingly surrender and sacrifice their individual quests in favor of love or marriage? Or is it just a strategy of female subversion against the established dominant norm? Do they envision in their female-centered fiction alternate female strategies, protest, challenge bondages or marital ties in psychosexual and social constructs? Does that articulate dissenting or alternative prescriptions of womanhood in Indian cultural context? Do they really commit to the feminist cause? Do such tendencies become a feminist interpretative exercise as a 'separatist feminism' or 'a radical outcry against marriage' or as a displaced fashionable stance, an obsession with women rather than a constructive culture sensitive process of social change and personal growth? Does it achieve their objective in achieving self-realization,self-expression,self-fulfillment,self-definition,self-actualization, self emancipation.

The journey to self hood and the freedom constitutes the burden of the female experience that eventually "becomes a cultural motif" in society is under scrutiny and the resolution and resurrection finally achieved in and through society and literature .