Underpinnings of Partition Dynamics in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters

Abstract

A study of the man-woman relationship as narrated in the modern literature of the East and the West shows a disruption and the breakdown in the conventional expectations of female behavior.  The paper analyses fictional representation of Indian woman’s responses to trauma in the background of communal violence in India. Women, as their position within communal violence is usually theorized as that of victims who are either silent or who fictionalize their experiences. Fictional imagination of woman’s condition during communal riots and their responses to the trauma as a result of those riots are demonstrated in this paper by examine the novel, Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur which have narrative set in the background of communal violence in India.