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Proceedings of International Seminar on
GENDER IDENTITY AND EQUALITY THROUGH CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SCAPE
2nd, AUGUST, 2018
Organized by
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH & CENTRE FOR WOMEN's STUDIES
PSGR Krishnammal College for Women
COLLEGE OF EXCELLENCE – RANKED 16th BY NIRF, 2018
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1Volume 5.Supplementary Issue1.2018  (August)

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ABHINAYA C

Women’s Identity and Motherhood in Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter

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ABIRAMI A

Victims or Perpetrators? A Study of Women in Alice Munro’s “Runaway”.

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3

ANITHA ANGELINE

Silence As a Tool Against Patriarchy in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

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4

APARSHA P

Gender Discrimination in Select Poems of Adrienne Rich

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5

ARUL JOTHI S & Dr. J SANTHOSH PRIYAA

The Issue of Gender Discrimination in Research Ethics With Reference to Robin Cook’s Fever.

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6

ASVITHA V

Breaking the Taboos and Establishing the Identity of Women in the Indian Cultural Context through Select Poems of Meena Kandasamy

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7

BERIL SOUNTHINI T & DR. JAYASHREE

Unassailable Women in the Cultural Clutches as Portrayed in One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan.

19

8

BRINDHA S

A glance at the plight of a missing Mother: with reference to Kyun - sook Shin’s Please Look after Mother

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9

DEKSHA S

The Study of The Unforeseen Issues of Gender Identity with Reference to John Colapinto’s As Nature made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

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10

DIVYA K

Gender Issues in Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session

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DIVYA V

Search for Self Realization in the novel The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros.

31

12

Dr. R AMUDHA

Struggle for Survival: A Study of Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride

34

13

Dr. R ANITHA

Radical and Resolute Women of Nigeria in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

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Dr. N BHUVANA

The Beaten Psyche- Gender Domination and Differences in Emma Donoghue's Room

41

15

Dr. S GOMATHI

Representation of Queerness in ShyamSelvadurai’sFunny Boy

44

16

Dr. NARASINGARAM JAYASHREE

Multitudinous Nuances in Farkhanda Lodhi’s “Cracks in the Heart”

46

17

Dr.G.PARVATHY

Towards Authentic Existence: A Beauvorian Reading of Doris Lessing’s Novels

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18

Dr.M MOOVENDHAN

ManjuKapur’sDifficult Daughters : A Study of the Female Psyche

54

19

E.S.LATHA

TOWARDS A GENDERLESS SOCIETY

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ELAKKIYA A

Gender Inequality as Evident in Henry Lawson’s, “The Drover’s Wife”

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FRANCIA P A

Virginity test: Trauma of Misogynistic Cultural Practices in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory

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22

FABIN N AHAMED

Victims to Conquerors: Gender Role in George R.R.Martin’s  A Storm of Swords

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FASIM NASREEN ROJA M

Suppression of Women in Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns

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GOWSIKA S

Discrimination of Women in “Broken” By Shy Keenan

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HARSHINIE SHRI S

Undoing Gender Performativity in Children’s Books – Ballerino Nate and William’s Doll

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HARSHAVARDHINI R

Sensibility of Women in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe

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HINDUJA V

Oppression of Women in Wendy Cope’s He Tells Her

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Janet Pearline Grace J & Dr. Sumathy K Swamy

Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns –  An Insight into Afghan Women Behind Socio-Cultural Bars

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Jayasree R & Dr. Sumathy K Swamy

Feminism in Select Poems of Maya Angelou

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30

JENOSHA PRISLIN S

A Feminist Reading of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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JEYASIBA PONMANI S & Dr. M ANGELINE

A Voice Behind the Red Cloak and White Winged Bonnet: A Handmaid’s Quest of Equality and Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

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JOSHINA ROZARIO

Confluence of Culture and Relationship – A Study of  Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

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KARTHIKA PS

Reverberation of Repressive Power against Woman across Centuries: A Critical Reading of the Novel Sugandhi Enna Aandal Devanayaki

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KAREN VINITA C & Dr. S LAVANYA

Power Feminism in a dystopian setting in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife

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KAVIYA K &DR. DHANALAKSHMI A

Redifined Gender Roles in Fairy Tales: A Study of The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munch

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KAVYA M

Gender Equality and Rights in Jennie Melamed’s Gather the Daughters

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37

KOWSALYA P

A Child to an Independent Woman: Depiction of Nell in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age

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38

KRISHNAPRIYA K

Possibilities of Overseen HeroismA study of gender stereotypes and their breaking in SITA – the Warrior of Mithila.

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39

LATHA R

Psychological Repression of Antoinette due to societal constraints in Wide Sargasso Sea

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40

LINCY LINNETTE A & Dr. V DAVID JEYABALAN

A STUDY OF JHUMPA LAHIRI’S INTERPRETER OF MALADIES AS A DIASPORIC WOMEN’S DISCOURSE

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41

MAHALAKSHMI N

Portrayal of Women in the Select Poems of Taslima Nasrin

115

42

MALAVIKA R S

Bama’s Karukku: A Quest for Gender Identity and Equality of the Subaltern.

117

43

MANO CHITRA S

Male ascendancy in Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin and ‘The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

119

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MATANGI R

The Powerful Counterparts as Described in Amish Tripathi’s The Secret of The Nagas

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MENAKA S

The Treatment of Women and Gender Issues in the Selected Poems of Marge Piercy

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MONISHA V

Gender Disparity in Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

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MOULIYAMATHI M R

Feministic Views in Select Poems Of Rupi Kaur

129

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MOWNICA A

Theme of Self-Realization in Shashi Deshpande’s That LongSilence

132

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MRINALINI S

Gender Identity of Children: A Kaleidoscopic View of Their Parents Through Trans-G Parents by Trisha Sugarek

134

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MYTHIRI B

Ignonimity and Gender Disparity in SagnikDatta’s Short Story The Divine Pregnancy in a Twelve-Year Old Woman

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Nima K U &

Dr. R. Sumathi

Unearthing the Silent Voices in Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen

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NISHASUJATHA D

Suzanne Collins’ Katniss Everdeen as a “Girl on Fire”

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NITHYA K

Feminist Reading of Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! the Court is in Session

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54

NIVETHA K

Retelling the Trauma and Search for Identity in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Novel Speak

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55

P R AKSHAYA

Gender Discrimination and Inequality in the Select Poems of AudreLorde

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PANKAJ LUCHAN GOGOI

Liminality and Indian Diaspora Women’s Identity in Two Stories of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

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PAVITHRA R

Reverberation of Self: A. Revathi’s The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story

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PREETHI R

Incarcerated Psyche: A Study of Usha Mahajan’s Short Story -“She too is Ahalya”

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PRITHIKA R

     Self Realization in Ladies Coupe by Anita Nair.

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60

PRIYADHARSHINI K

Competency of Hermione Granger in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series

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PRIYA DHARSHINI D & Dr. SUMATHY K. SWAMY

Paradigmatic Shift of Girija in Rajam Krishnan’s Lamps in the Whirlpool

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62

PRIYANKA SIDHARTHAN

Breaking the taboos of Gendered and Cultural Stereotypes in Deepa Mehta’s Fire

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PRIYANKA P

A Woman’s Journey in Search of Purpose of Life through the Short Story Chocolate

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64

RAMA SUDAKAR

Quest for Identity and Depiction of Masculinity in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

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65

RAKHI L LALWANI

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Panchaali – Re-telling to re-assert.

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RAMYA B

Portrayal of Mental Illness of Women With Reference to Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s  “The Yellow Wallpaper”

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67

RAMYA CS & RANJANI S

Gender Issues in Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night

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68

ROHINI S

Double Marginalization of Women in Dalit Society Portrayed in Sangati by Bama

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69

SANDIAH R K

Identity Crisis and Domestic Violence in Gregory E Upshaw’s Domestic Violence

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SARUMATHI K

Silence- The Cause of Domestic Violence and Inequality

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SASIKALA M

Constraints of African Women in The Arrangers of Marriage by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

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SEEMA M &

Dr. P SANTHI

Studies on Gender Inequalityy, and Male Domination with reference to Select Plays of Vijay Tendulkar

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SHANMATHI R

Gender Equality – Revisiting the Past and Identifying the Present Gender Biased Legal

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SHARLIE R

Gender Identity Lies in the Freedom of Women

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SHREE SAMYUKTHA D

Identity Crisis and Struggle for Liberation of Women in Annie Louisa Walker’s Women’s Rights

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SHRIVAISHNAVI J

Psychological Reading of Women in Dipti Kulkarni's Save Girl and Four Wise Men

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77

SIVASHRUTHY

Voices of Men for Women: Quest for Bharathi’s ‘New Women’ in Jayakanthan’s Heroines

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SOUNDHARYA S S

Women: “The Epitome of Strength” in Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi

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SUJITHRA S

Identity crisis in Lee Mokobe’s What it feels like to be a Transgender

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Dr. SUMITHRA T

Exploring and Deploring Tradition to Redress and Redefine Individual Desires in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru  

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Dr. SUSHMA MISHRA

A Feminist Perspective on the novel That Long Silence of Shashi Deshpande

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SWARNALATHA M

Dependence on Masculinity in Cry, The Peacock by Anita Desai

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VALARMATHI

Affinity between Gender and Power as in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel

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VARSHINI T

South Korea's Gender Inequality and Misogyny in South Korea's Misogyny by Se Wong Koo

226

85

VIDYA S

The Internal Conflict of Gender Identity in Themeepy’sI Don’t Know

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86

VATHANAM

Gender Discrimination in Mahesh Dattani’s Play Tara

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VINITHA T S

The Marginalisation of Queer Black Feminism in the Select Poems of Audre Lorde

234

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VISALI V

Human Behavioural Ecology: A Study of Tellie Olsen’s Short Story

237

89

VIYASHINI S

Inner Strength of Woman in Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman

239

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YUVASHREE K

Society Induced Identity Changes in Dutchman by Amiri Baraka

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