www.research-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN 2347 – 503X International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Research Chronicler A peer-reviewed refereed and indexed international multidisciplinary research journal Volume I Issue II: December – 2013 CONTENTS Name of the Author Title of the Paper Download Dr. Archana Feminine Sensibility Vs. Sexuality: A New 1201PDF & Dimension Dr. Pooja Singh Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Interrogating Representations of History: A 1202 PDF Dwivedi Study of Mukul Kesavan’s Looking Through Glass Dr. A.P. Pandey Problems and Promises in Translating Poetry 1203 PDF Dr. Ketan K. Gediya Generation Divide among Diaspora in Jhumpa 1204 PDF Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth Dr. Nisha Dahiya Patriotic Urge in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry 1205 PDF Md. Irshad Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence: A 1206 PDF Study of Assertion and Emotional Explosion Dr. Shanti Tejwani ICT : As an Effective Tool for Teacher Trainees 1207 PDF Dr. Manoj Kumar Jain Differences in Stock Price Reaction to Bond 1208 PDF Rating Changes: With S from India Maushmi Thombare Bahinabai Chaudhari – A Multidimensional 1209 PDF Poet Prof. Deepak K. Nagarkar Death as Redemption in Arthur Miller’s Death 1210 PDF of a Salesman Dr. Vijaykumar A. Patil Zora Neale Hurston’s Theory of Folklore 1211 PDF Dr. Jaiprakash N. Singh Dalitonki Vyatha-Katha: Dalitkatha 1212 PDF Raj Kumar Mishra Traces of Hindu Eco-Ethics in the Poetry of 1213 PDF A.K. Ramanujan Dr. Nidhi Srivastava A Comparative Study of Values and Adjustment 1214 PDF of Secondary School Students With and Without Working Mothers Sanjeev Kumar Pinjar: From Verbal to Audio-visual 1215 PDF Vishwakarma Transmutation Swati Rani Debnath W.B. Yeats: Transition from Romanticism to 1216 PDF Volume I Issue II: October 2013 Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.research-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN 2347 – 503X International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Modernism Sushil Sarkar Environment and Woman: Reflections on 1217 PDF Exploitation through Eco-Feminism in Mahasweta Devi’s Imaginary Maps Book Review Sangeeta Singh Goddess in Exile: A Sad Tale of Female 1218 PDF Existentialism Poetry Bhaskar Roy Barman On The Marge 1219 PDF Dr Seema P. Salgaonkar Entrapped 1220 PDF Jaydeep Sarangi I Live for My Daughter / Writing Back 1221 PDF Interview Prof. Masood Ahmed Interview with Poet Arbind Kumar Choudhary 1222 PDF Volume I Issue II: October 2013 Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.research-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN 2347 – 503X International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Goddess in Exile: A Sad Tale of Female Existentialism Sangeeta Singh Govt. College, Hamirpur (H.P.) India The novel Goddess in Exile reminds of wished it. The marriage was literarily forced TS Eliot‟s “Waste Land”. The novel‟s story on her against her wishes. Her grandfather is enmeshed in cross references, anecdotes, was a conservative orthodox Brahmin and it and mythical stories both from the Indian was his last wish to see her married. Harsha and western cultures. Yet a connecting wanted to pursue her studies, wanted to thread of a woman‟s existential choice runs prepare for IAS but her life was ruled by through the narrative binding it together. other people‟s whims and desires. She had Just as the “Waste Land” offers a solution to no say in matters that concerned her life. the depravation all around The Goddess in She was assured by all that once she had a Exile also has an embedded message for baby, things would be different and her women to find the strength within them to husband would eventually find a sense of free themselves from the exile of eternal bonding with her. She continued to live her servility and humiliation. life in the hope of things to change and then The story unfolds through the telling of she realized that the change has to come Harsha‟s story. She represents the repressed through her; not by waiting eternally for her status of women in a marital relation. husband to show some kindness. Harsha was Harsha‟s hope, which she realizes is nothing burdened by the experience of anguish and but eternal misery brings her to the decision solitude within the prison of her gender. of snapping all ties with her husband. Her She tries to reach out to her parents but husband was a compulsive alcoholic and when she realizes that they are bound by treated her like a piece of furniture. She was tradition she has to leave her husband to find totally disillusioned by her marriage. her future away from him. She is Though her husband was a renowned continuously plagued by her in-laws, parents surgeon but he was an extremely cruel and even her closest friends to reconcile husband. He ill treated Harsha and she had with her husband. No one understands her to undergo a marital rape and physical point of view because in patriarchal society violence whenever her husband desired. Life a woman cannot have a point of view. She was a living hell with him. Even though her takes a bold step of studying Journalism to parents were aware of her husband‟s live her life on her own terms. drinking problem, yet they got lured by his When she meets Alberto a family status and promises made by his Portuguese philosopher, she finds her soul father of his improved behavior after mate. He has immense respect and interest marriage. They gave Harsha‟s hand in for Indian philosophy, her ancient history marriage because Harsha‟s grandfather had Volume I Issue II December 2013 (150) Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.research-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN 2347 – 503X International Multidisciplinary Research Journal and heritage. He is a follower of Buddhist side window‟ which framed her existence religion. Alberto being a man has the becomes a metaphor that defines her life in freedom to follow any religion of his choice. exile and eternal waiting. Her meetings with Similarly, Sahoo appeals for freedom of Alberto were locked up in another box choice for Harsha and millions of women which she kept close to her heart and opened like her tethered to patriarchal expectations frequently. Initially their conversation never where woman is given no right to choose. bordered around their personal past but love Alberto and Harsha initially exchange does creep into their friendship when Harsha philosophical knowledge about various unwinds her sad past to Alberto. The things. Their relationship develops over physical violence, marital rape suffered by exchange of philosophical knowledge which Harsha at the hands of her husband had left is shared by them through a game of her body and soul battered. She was question and answer. “They were engrossed desperate for a shoulder to cry her heart out in a game almost as a routine for three and Alberto becomes the voice board for months. A wonderful game indeed; they had her. They share with each other their inner already arrived at the threshold of a deeper most distresses and wounds of the past that region as if they had gone into it by peeling haunted their present. “Alberto had provided off the skin, layer by layer” (Sahoo, her peace and poise to her unsteady mind, a Goddess in Exile: 11). Philosophical mind almost devastated by a violent discussions obliterated whatever difference tempest.”(Sahoo, Goddess in Exile: 135) that existed between the two. Their Sahoo hints at the limited choice that is discussions transported them into a world available to women in marriage and how where the lines of reality got blurred, women continue to negotiate their lives offering the much-needed respite from bearing the violence in silence. The novel solitude and anguish of reality. The hints at violence both physical as well as conversations on philosophy, mythology and sexual against women that is not fully art kept them away from the sad reality of criminalized under law in our country. their situation. Sahoo‟s novels and the characters that Harsha had compartmentalized her life, populate them are „real‟ to the degree that her life with her husband was locked in a she observes society and records her box which would open up whenever her observations in order to create awareness for parents called her, sad memories and the certain social problems and to effect change. eternal waiting by the “south side widow” The story of Harsha is also the story of would bring sad reminiscences. “Harsha many women from India. The inner psyche recollected the open widow on the south, the of a woman is telescoped through the widow that was never closed. The same narrative technique of stream of window kept her closed up inside like a consciousness by Sahoo. It lays bare the photo frame. She had passed through many mind and soul of Harsha. The novel depicts sleepless nights leaning against the widow.” the sordid realities of women married to (Sahoo, Goddess in Exile: 67) The „south violent spouses. Also according to Katrak: Volume I Issue II December 2013 (151) Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.research-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN 2347 – 503X International Multidisciplinary Research Journal As wives, women may her life is threatened, she hardly has any subconsciously internalize sad- options given social conditioning and masochistic roles, and become censure. The experience of internalized exile unable to emerge from situations of unfolds as a process that includes Harsha‟s physical and psychological battering. complicated levels of consent and collusions The main cause for their silence is to domination which cannot be easily cast the complex web of female off. Sarojini is a progressive writer who has socializations based on unequal not severed her social responsibilities but power relations.…Given these layers she does want to draw the attention of the of female willingness to participate reader towards what is ailing in the in a male dominated model of institution of marriage.