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@article{153393,
        author = {Nisha Pappachan},
        title = {From Subjecthood to Fluidity: A Lacanian Reading of Jaishree Misra’s Ancient Promises },
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {8},
        number = {7},
        pages = {224-227},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=153393},
        abstract = {This article has analyzed the Novel Ancient Promises (2000) written by Jaishree Misra from a psychoanalytical-feminist perspective using Lacan's theory of The Name-of-the-Father and Helene Cixous, ecriture feminine to accentuate the weakened power of the Phallogocentric discourse in the formation of the female subjects. Jaishree Misra, a present-day Indian Novelist, takes us deeper into the consciousness of her women character and addresses her qualms, predicaments, and motivations. She states her discernments as a modern woman writer who writes women. In this semi-autobiographical novel, Misra portrays Janu as a silent subject according to Lacan’s Symbolic order and later on accepts a reverse path towards self-fulfillment and actualization. Jaishree Misra employs the method of deconstructing the Patriarchal discourse and elucidates a woman’s rear journey from these patriarchal norms to liberation by rejecting something finite, structured, and meaningful according to the patriarchal system.},
        keywords = {Feminine Discourse, Female Subject hood, gender fluidity, Phallogocentric Language},
        month = {},
        }