The huge wealth of the world’s literary output is richer due to the immense variety and array of intellectual and creative enterprise captured within the covers of thousands of books. Keywords:- Feminism and Feminist literary criticism, culture, role of gender, position and difference of gender, object of male- desire and deprive of self- expression and self- determination, patriarchy, darkness, cultural practices of genderĪbstract- Literature celebrates differences- differences in perception and expression. The prime objective in this paper is to focus on an Individual and Family Strife / struggle particularly of female characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘A Temporary Matter’ in the light of Feminist literary criticism.

Most of the women characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s works are the victims of cultural identity they often caught between the two worlds. Her female characters are not subjected to any economic exploitation by the patriarchy. Jhumpa presents women’s marginalization in cultural context. Her feminist approach is somewhat different from the other female authors. Essentially her tales paint a very intelligent portrait of upper-middle-class life. Jhumpa Lahiri is one of the most respected authors of our time. It is concerned with the marginalization, repression, subjugation and representation of all women in Art and Culture. Feminist literary criticism is considered to be a political discourse, a literary and theoretical commitment to straggle for women against patriarchy and sexism. Feminism and Feminist literary criticism are often defined as a matter of what is absent rather than what is present.

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