Women amidst Duets and Duels of Binaries

Each of the dual aspects in the woman characters in Salman Rushdie's fictional world namely, boldness-submissiveness, good-evil, love-hatred, the monstrous and the angelic, motherliness-unmotherliness, etc., like a membrane, divides inside from outside. This division, passing through 'a hymeneal bond' and 'an osmotic mixing' (Miller 443), results in formation of a 'new woman' (Weikgenannt 67), who is a source of life and death, a devilish angel, an angelic devil, a motherly mother, an unmotherly mother, a joyful sorrow, a sorrowful joy, a pleasurable suffering, a suffering pleasure, a destroying nurturer, a nurturing destroyer, an epitome of refuge, shelter and escape, destroying one's identity, a tuner / toner of destiny being also the controller / capturer of one's destiny, a Snake in the form of a Ladder, a Ladder in the form of a Snake, lovingly constructive, lovingly destructive, lovingly revengeful, revengefully lovable, shamelessly shameful, shamefully shameless, powerlessly powerful, powerfully powerless, lovingly humiliating, humiliating lovingly, lovable but violent, harmlessly harmful, harmfully harmless, and so on.

Autorentext

Dr. V. Vidya, Profesor Asistente, Departamento de Inglés, Bishop Heber College, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI, Tamil Nadu - 620001India.

Klappentext

Each of the dual aspects in the woman characters in Salman Rushdie's fictional world namely, boldness-submissiveness, good-evil, love-hatred, the monstrous and the angelic, motherliness-unmotherliness, etc., like a membrane, divides inside from outside. This division, passing through a hymeneal bond and an osmotic mixing (Miller 443), results in formation of a new woman (Weikgenannt 67), who is a source of life and death, a devilish angel, an angelic devil, a motherly mother, an unmotherly mother, a joyful sorrow, a sorrowful joy, a pleasurable suffering, a suffering pleasure, a destroying nurturer, a nurturing destroyer, an epitome of refuge, shelter and escape, destroying one s identity, a tuner / toner of destiny being also the controller / capturer of one s destiny, a Snake in the form of a Ladder, a Ladder in the form of a Snake, lovingly constructive, lovingly destructive, lovingly revengeful, revengefully lovable, shamelessly shameful, shamefully shameless, powerlessly powerful, powerfully powerless, lovingly humiliating, humiliating lovingly, lovable but violent, harmlessly harmful, harmfully harmless, and so on.