RESISTANCE OF THE MARGINALIZED WOMEN IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF ANITA DESAI AND AMITAV GHOSH (Pages 48-58) by Ms. R. Jeyadevi* and Dr. S. T. Gunasekhar** in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

According to The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, resistance is the actor action of resisting, opposing or withstanding; organized covert opposition to an occupying or ruling power (Oxford-2562). Resistance exposes the unjust practices, undermines the power of the dominant structures,and may eventually carve out an equal place for the ordinary people and their practices. Albert Camus,Michel de Certeau and Jacques Rancière have been employed to analyze the selected texts. The three have theorized the nature of resistance. This paper reveals that the recent Indian fiction allows considerable representation to the marginalized and oppressed. It is felt in general that the main cause for the dissatisfaction of the women in today’s society is the superior attitude of the men throughout; hence the women have suffered in silence and so feminism talks exactly about that suppresion of Indian women. Indian English novelists like Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande and Kamala Markandya have also frankly highlighted this concept. This article mainly examines on the articulation of resistance in terms of gender, caste, class and the postcolonial condition, the linguistic, cultural and ecological forms of resistance With an emphasis on the study of the discourses of resistance including Marxism, Feminism and Post Colonialism are considered to examine how far the novels of Anita Desai and Amitav Ghosh expose social and economic resistance of the Marginalized Women. Keywords: Resistance, Resistance Literature, Marginalization, Feminism, Resistance of Marginalized Women.