Priyanka Naik Dessai
English Literature
December 2024
That of motherhood in modern Indian English literature, the actual concept is being altered rapidly. It's disrupting the old stereotypes and becoming more involved in ideas that tend to the complex, alternative representations. Feminist writers such as Manju Kapur and Amulya Malladi, through their works, portray that the patriarchal system may control the life of women and also illustrate the problems of women agency, while the surgeons and wives surrogacy stories are about in the novels Custody and House for Happy Birth. The books also convey the new dynamics of single parenting and transnational LGBTQ+ family identities, seen in 1084 Mother by Mahasweta Devi and Javanese version of the Pregnant King by Devdutt Pattanaik. The great thing about these literary pieces is that they also portray some of our concerns and reality and are great examples of hybridity, survivability, and empowerment. The documentaries, from mothers and children, portray the complicated negotiations of the new dynamics of the transition. These tales could be used to illustrate that an illumination of the motherhood idea beyond the conventional family structures is an important call for a shift in the thinking, which in turn may be used to animate new definitions that reflect the contemporary life. This point indicates the necessity to search how the perceptions should be changed and policies should be adjusted to fit the requirements of the new patterns, and doing more studies of the interdependence of the motherhood and family effectiveness in the context of the changeable norms.
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