Home About IUP Magazines Journals Books Archives
     
A Guided Tour | Recommend | Links | Subscriber Services | Feedback | Subscribe Online
 
The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Transforming Multiple Hierarchies: Polyvocality, Flux and Problems of Identity in Multicultural Women's Writing
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Based on the premise that feminist writing is pluralist and transgressive, the paper takes up an analysis of works by women writers from different cultures. It discusses how the employment of multiple voices along with characters in flux is a major strategy in women's writing, especially those from multiple cultures. These writers generally depict the woman protagonists' quest for individual identity, something which `they' are often denied in `other' cultures. Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence contain fine examples of these feminist motifs, as evident in the analysis made.