Saranya, V M (2019) Women Identity in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters. Women Identity in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters, 14 (4). pp. 1027-1028. ISSN 2456-7620

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Abstract

Manju Kapur (born in Amritsar, India) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won
the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.
She teaches English at Delhi University under the name Manjul Kapur Dalmia. Difficult Daughters is a charming
novel about educating daughters, and facing the consequences when they learn to think for themselves and begin to
question the basic values of society. It is the old conflict again between t he demands of modernity and tradition,
enacted this time in an upright, high-minded, middle-class Punjabi Lalaji family in the 1930s and '40s

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Manju Kapur, Women Identity, novel
Divisions: PSG College of Arts and Science > Department of English
Depositing User: Mr Team Mosys
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2024 08:50
Last Modified: 27 Sep 2024 08:50
URI: https://ir.psgcas.ac.in/id/eprint/2285

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