• TREATMENT OF WOMEN IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

Girja Bhawani Dr Rupinderkaur

Abstract: Gabriel GarcíaMárquez’s famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the city of Macondo and the Buendia family. In this novel, the circle of life is presented of the city and the Buendia family which resembles the history of Latin America. The rise and fall of Macondohappen with the rise and decline of the Buendia family. This research paper is focused on understanding how women characters are represented in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. In this process to analyse the treatment of women in the novel by Gabriel GarcíaMárquez, this paper analyses the gender dynamic and presence of patriarchy in the novel. It also analyses every woman character in the novel, evaluates and assesses the view of the author behind representing the women characters of different shades with a fair share of virtue and vice.

• Search for Inner Harmony in Divakaruni’s Novels

Dr. Vaibhav Dutt Sharma

Abstract: The present paper is an attempt to study women’s struggle to find inner harmony and love on the existence and shaping of the women personalities through the novels of Indian diasporic writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. She, like other feminist writers, has shown feminism through her works in literature as well as social work. The research paper essentially highlights how her female protagonists, not like stereotyped Indian women who are ready to suffer, have become independent and want to live life with dignity.

• Effects of Polandry System in Yashe Dorjee Thongchi’s SONAM

Sanjay G. Uike

Abstract: The present paper attempts to focus on the effects of polyandry system in Yashe Dorjee Thongchi’s famous novel Sonam. The novel is basically concerned with the native Monpa culture of Arunachal Pradesh which evinces social conflicts and tention prevalent in the Monpa tribe. Though feminism has given freedom to women to come out from the age old customs & tradition of patriarchy, they remained chained in the clutches of men in the age of globalization also. Polygamy and polyandry customs are responsible for the social conflicts in the Monpas. The novel has a hopeful message that every human beings should treat with love, kindness, sympathy, courage, emotions etc. and allows them to live peacefully as a human being.

• Effects of Polandry System in Yashe Dorjee Thongchi’s SONAM

Sanjay G. Uike

Abstract: The present paper attempts to focus on the effects of polyandry system in Yashe Dorjee Thongchi’s famous novel Sonam. The novel is basically concerned with the native Monpa culture of Arunachal Pradesh which evinces social conflicts and tention prevalent in the Monpa tribe. Though feminism has given freedom to women to come out from the age old customs & tradition of patriarchy, they remained chained in the clutches of men in the age of globalization also. Polygamy and polyandry customs are responsible for the social conflicts in the Monpas. The novel has a hopeful message that every human beings should treat with love, kindness, sympathy, courage, emotions etc. and allows them to live peacefully as a human being.