The Surfacing Of Tara As A New Woman In Barathi Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters
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In Bharati’s novel Desirable Daughters, the woman protagonist Tara is courageous and dares to extend her viewpoints on marriage, love and sex. She also redefines her role as a spouse and mother. Bharati explores the atrocities put on ‘gendered subaltern’, women in the form of child marriage, arranged marriage, and limitations of prospective career opportunities for talented girls like Padma and Tara in the novel. The protagonist Tara is seen violating and crossing the borders to fulfil her dreams. The modification issues of the women immigrants as outsiders in society and their phobic state of mind because of political, sexual orientation, and racial biases become essential issues in the novel explored in this paper.
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