![]() ![]() candidate at the University of California, San Diego. Gertrude Stein's "Introduction to the Speeches of Maréchal Pétain" was drawn out of the Random House papers held at Columbia University by Wanda Van Dusen, a former Ph.D. It seems her main struggle was to overcome gender role cultural conditioning, and an internalised sense of diffidence and helplessness due to her impairment. Fighting back against marital abuse and domestic violence, she has carved a niche for herself as a trauma counsellor, corporate trainer, writer, aerobics trainer, public speaker, and director of Silver Linings Human Resource Solutions Pvt ltd. My paper will focus on themes of love, longing and the traumatic abuse she endured at the hands of her alcoholic husband before she finally mustered the courage to walk out and fight for a dignified existence for herself and her children. The Other Senses (2012), is an autobiography written by Preeti Monga, a blind woman, who wanted nothing but happy domesticity in life before the nightmarish intimate partner she endured at the hands of her alcoholic husband. In a way, the genre empowers disabled women to tell their own stories that counter sexual and ableist marginalisation. ![]() appearance biases and other shared struggles. As opposed to some case studies available in India, the immediacy of the personal narrative conveys disabled women’s distinct perspectives on sexuality, reproductive issues. ![]() However, this is still a recent development in India. It has emerged alongside disability rights activists' advancement of the social model of disability. Life-writing is a vital feature of the disability rights movement. Keywords: Women’s Autobiographies, Identity, Feminism, Writing as therapy, Times, there seems to a willingness to operate within a system of female subjugation, and byĮmphasizing the individualism and singularity of their protest and choosing not to critique theīroad structures of subordination, these writers espouse some kind of ‘populist’ version ofįeminism that does not threaten the social fabric, perhaps even reinforce it. Despite the angst and protest against the conservatism of their Their feminist undercurrents and subversive ethos, these narratives seem to employ circumspectĪttitude and playing it safe. Intelligence which mars the feminist potential of the texts. Literature, loneliness, marginality and so on, I argue that there is a tendency to see their ownĮxcellence as exceptional, their achievements as individualistic marks of courage and Though both writers have constructed the ‘self’ by using tropes of gender, religion, Nation with more or less similar connotations in its predicament and struggle in a predominantly Indian women’s lives in the wake of nationalistic struggles and the aspirations of a postcolonial Their autobiographies, record the story of transitions in middle-class, upper caste Literatures as well as major literary figures in their respective mother tongues as well as in Both, Kamala Das and Amrita Pritam were major feminist icons in Indian I propose to examine two autobiographies, My Story by Kamala Das, Revenue Stampīy Amrita Pritam. ![]()
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