REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN ASHAPURNA DEVI’S NOVELS PRATHAM PRATISHRUTI AND SUBARNALATA: AN INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST STUDY

Abstract

This study's goal was to analyze and explain how women are portrayed from a feminist standpoint in the novels Pratham Pratishruti and Subarnalata written by Ashapurna Devi. This study was conducted from December 2022 to March 2023. One of the best-known social reformers and feminist women authors of Indian fiction in English is Ashapurna Devi. In her writings, Devi depicts the inner thoughts and feelings of women who are constrained by the constraints of intersecting clasess. In this study, women's portrayals in the novels Pratham Pratishruti and Subarnalata by Ashapurna Devi was explored, examined, and analyzed from an intersectional feminist viewpoint. The major materials for this research project were the actual writings of Ashapurna Devi, which were read, examined, and critically interpreted. By gathering information from the chosen text, it used the descriptive method to interpret how Ashapurna Devi has portrayed women in her writings. For the current study project, analytical, interpretive, and comparative methodologies were applied. In addition, information has been updated using the internet. As a result, this work has explored, examined, and evaluated the process by which the female protagonists of her chosen novels, Pratham Pratishruti and Subarnalata by Ashapurna Devi, come to be represented as such.