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@article{173120,
        author = {Jeevalatha I and Dr. R. Kannan},
        title = {Women’s Defective Inheritance by Gender Disparity with special reference to Meena Kandasamy and Bama},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {9},
        pages = {2065-2069},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=173120},
        abstract = {Gender disparity is a sad and fair truth of our society. People often differentiate between the genders, with males inappropriately getting the edge. Sadly, females in our society go through a lot of evils. The researcher inspired and motivated to fought and rise against feminism in Tamil Nadu. Meena Kandasamy and Bama are two famous authors usually focused their writings for and against feminism. The authors highlight gender discrimination and imposed isolate for female in various situation and time being.  In addition to the imposed sociocultural practise influenced the women as ineffectiveness in decision making. It also highlights the male domination and creating female inheritance against decision making. The researcher has chosen ‘When I Hit You’ and ‘The Gypsy Goddess’ of Meena Kandasamy. On the other hand, ‘Karukku’ of Bama has chosen to generalise the gender discrimination, women defective inheritance and isolation in society. When I Hit You is a famous novel by Meena Kandasamy that tells the story of a young, educated, and successful writer who marries a university professor and experiences extreme violence and social isolation at his hands. The another novel of Meena Kandasamy taken for study is ‘The Gypsy Goddess’. In ‘The Gypsy Goddess’, the author narrates recounts the 1968 massacre of forty-four landless villagers striking for higher wages in the village of Kilvenmani, Tamil Nadu. Meanwhile Karukku is a famous novel of  Bama summarise about the life history of Bama as Roman Catholic Christian growing up in a small village in Tamil Nadu, becoming educated, entering a convent, and leaving from home seven years later, disillusioned by the persistence of caste oppression and discrimination within the church and its institutions. The all three selected novels portrait the women characters in dimensional curiosity. Hence the researcher made an attempt to generalise the fact against feminism and to conclude a appropriate result on the basis of moral arbitrary of the novels. The aim of this article will be to analyse the different ways in which Meena Kandasamy and Bama, so far known as a critically acclaimed poet, uses the novel as a literary genre, together with some well-known postmodern theories and strategies, in order to disclose the shortcomings of traditional linear plot-driven novels, criticize the exoticism so often displayed in contemporary Tamil Nadu fiction, unearth the “other” side of official Indian history, dig up the traumatic story of an entire Tamil Nadu society fight for freedom of gender disparities, and give voice to those who were for so long relegated to silence, invisibility, and oblivion. As this analysis will make clear, the experimental nature of this novels of Meena Kandasamy and Bama to confront readers with an unpalatable reality beyond the capacity of the conventional realist novel.},
        keywords = {Gender disparity, Meena Kandasamy, Bama, When I Hit You, The Gypsy Goddess and Karukku.},
        month = {February},
        }