What role did women writers play in portraying the modern period?please please please please please please please I want long answer
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Women's writing, which had generally been on the periphery of literary studies is today emerging as one of the major areas of interest, specially among women. It is because this writing depicts the common condition of invisibility resulting from sexual politics that women are dx-awn towards it.
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Literature has witnessed the roles of women evolving through ages, but until recent times, most of the published writers were men and the portrayal of women in literature was without doubt biased. A lot of it has to be blamed on the fact that in the ancient world, literacy was strictly limited, and the majority of those who could write were male. However, the contribution of women to oral folklore cannot be taken for granted – in folk songs, stories, poetry and literature in general. Here’s a look at how women were portrayed in literature through eras.
During the Victorian era, there was an unending debate over the roles of women. While the era was dominated by writers who treated women as angelic figures- innocent, physically weaker and nothing less than household commodities; Edwardian poetry spoke of women's rights gathering much attention, feminism and females getting out of their homes during the war times.
Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ and Lord Tennyson’s ‘Lady of Shalott from the Victorian era centred around women involved a quest to attain some higher knowledge, which is limited to men and how in their attempt, they lose their ability to get back to the womanhood they were proud of. The Probationer, by AM Irvine is the best example of state of women in the post-Victorian era. Signalling the beginnings of Modernism, the novel also showcases characteristics of the modern women’s rights by portraying an independent and gifted female protagonist’s professional and personal coming-of-age.
According to author Anita Nair, “Literature has always been ambivalent in its representation of women. Good women as in ones who accepted societal norms were rewarded with happily ever after. Even feisty heroines eventually go onto find content and life's purpose in a good man's arms, be it Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice) or Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre). Alternatively, they are left to rue their lot with a contrived courage as with Scarlett O Hara (Gone with the Wind) or have to take their lives like Anna Karenina or Karuthamma (Chemmeen) or Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary).”
Author Jaishree Mishra feels if literature is doing its job as a mirror to society then, obviously, the depiction of women in books has changed along with society, from Jane Austen's seemingly demure heroines onto Helen Fielding's openly scatty, mouthy Bridget Jones, a modern-day reworking of 'Pride & Prejudice'.
Speaking of depiction of women in Indian poetry, it was freedom-fighter, educationist and activist Mahadevi Varma, who became the torchbearer of Hindi poetry on women issues. She also wrote on issues of women's emancipation and female sexuality - one that pretty much existed outside marriage. The great poetess took drew inspiration for her subjects from traditional Hindu literature, which talked about liberating images.
Jai Shankar Prasad, who was famous for his strong portrayals of women became popular for famously glorifying women. A popular verse from one of his most widely read poems, ‘Kamayani’ reads - "Nari! tum kewal shraddha ho, Vishwas-rajat-nag-pal-tal mein, Piyush strot si baha karo, Jeevan ki sundar samtal mein. (Oh woman! You are honour personified, Under the silver mountain of faith, Flow you, like a river of ambrosia, On this beautiful earth)". Poetess Amrita Pritam proved to be one of the leading voices in Indian regional poetry in the 20th century. Her Punjabi verses, which spoke of the aftermath of the India-Pakistan partition in the region of Punjab and the women oppressed in due course achieved a cult status amongst poetry lovers and late Kamala Das paved way for a heart-rending style of feminine confessional poetry, in which a common theme was the exploration of the man-woman relationship. This style was subsequently taken up by other women poets such as Gauri Deshpande and Chitra Narendran.