Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies

Zeenath Mohamed Kunhi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of English, Bon Secours College for Women, Vilar Bypass, Thanjavur, IN

Abstract

The main focus of feminist writers is reflecting concern with the silencing and marginalizing of women in a patriarchal society. India has seen a surge of feminist novelists who have portrayed an authentic picture of women's experience and also exhibited their concern over gender discrimination in their works of fiction. Arundhati Roy who made it to the Booker hall of fame with her maiden novel The God of Small Things is different from other Indian feminist writers because she challenges this "man-made structure" not only thematically but linguistically as well.

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