Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the portrayal of love and its expression in Lahiri and Sidhwa’s short stories and attempts to determine the voice and agency of female expression of love. Love and its expression have been the privilege of males in the narratives emerging from South Asia, and females generally had been unexpressive and maintained silence. But the women of modern times wish to give agency to their thought and so the fictional narratives from the Indo-Pak subcontinent are currently giving voice to the women. This problematizes the socio-political and cultural norms and their working in South Asian societies which necessitates exploring the current narratives. The writers intend to read the selected chunks of short stories by Lahiri and Sidhwa under the lens of postcolonial feminist theory. The stories Interpreter of Melodies (1999), Their Language of Love (2013) by these two writers respectively convey a dominant view of women’s agency of love with the significant impact on the social and literary scenes. The most probable outcome of the research is that the women in the 20th century Indo-Pak subcontinent are finding their voice not only represented but are being listened to through the narratives from South Asia.
Highlights
Mrs Das feel free to talk with Mr Kapasi, the interpreter, because of his side profession of interpreter of maladies
Mr Kapasi falls in love with Mrs Das and expects a lot, but after knowing about her past truth Mr Kapasi remains shocked and cannot say anything
On the other hand, Mrs Das feeling relaxed after revealing her truth because she needs someone who listens her about her guilt and says nothing on that, so she expresses herself before Mr Kapasi and feels free
Summary
Not everyone recognizes this fact, owing primarily to a lack of understanding of what love is. Love, according to some, is the emotion exchanged between two people that involves a profound connection and intimacy. Once they hear the word they think "romance" instantly. Psychologists today, on the other hand, strongly disagree. Love is linked to conduct and attitude, and because it is an emotion at its core, it can be subjectively seen and systematically examined. That is the term given to the concept of love
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