Chronicling the Self: A Feminist Approach to Mrinal Pande's Daughter's Daughter

Abstract

Autobiography writing is a means for women writers to explore their inner-most recesses of their selves. Mrinal Pande's Daughter's Daughter is a rare type of the portrayal of self-wherein the author creates a fictional self to describe her survival story of being a daughter's daughter. In the autobiography the author maintains a distance with her own self, speaking through a girl of the age span f two to ten. In the story of her 'self', Mrinal Pande, introspects, observes, comments and narrates her past through her mouthpiece, Tinu. The present paper focuses in detail the pain of being a girl child in a patriarchal society and the author's decision not to be a victim of patriarchal domination.