Tradition and Modernity: Re-visiting the Changing Images in ManjuKapur’s A Married Woman

- Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman is a novel that displays a spectrum of diverse cultural, sexual and gender identities. The novel opens up spaces that are self-reflexive on the line of democratic incorporation of voices of those in the fringes. At the same time, it re-interrogates the lines of division that we draw in terms of mainstream and queer, us and them, male and female, and the personal and the public. In a way, it will not be wrong to assert that the present paper argues and endorses the declarations at the beginning that the protagonist envisions the embrace of lesbianism as a protest to the patriarchal values by exploring the history of unique gender expressions throughout the country.