Gender Discrimination and Patriarchal Identity in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper deals with theme of the defenselessness of females and their passive nature in the patriarchal society. This paper explores the difficulties of family dynamics within a traditional, upper-middle-class family. Gender discrimination is one of the key concepts in this novel. This novel highlights the subjects like patriarchal identity, gender conflicts, and cultural traditions. Novel reveals the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its limitations and discrimination, its deafening warmness and sensual pleasure of food, to the cool centre of an American household, with its liberty and oddly self-denying feelings to eating. This paper includes the significance of individuality and self-sufficiency and how family ties can be disgusting for an individual.