Open AccessInterrogating the Female Textual Body in What the Body Remembers
Author(s) -
Dr Shreeja Tripathi Sharma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
smart moves journal ijellh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-4406
pISSN - 2582-3574
DOI - 10.24113/ijellh.v9i11.11265
Subject(s) - sustenance , humanity , human body , object (grammar) , relation (database) , gender studies , physical body , body language , fertility , aesthetics , sociology , art , communication , philosophy , demography , anatomy , medicine , linguistics , epistemology , political science , law , theology , database , computer science , population
The female textual body ascribes the female body more worth than a mere biological object and explores the masculine perception of evaluating women in relation to their body as ‘ vessels of fertility’ needed for sustenance of individual families and collective humanity. This research paper explores the female protagonists in Shauna Singh Balwin’s novel What the Body Remembers as symbols of female textual body in the discourse of gender.