Authors: Kalpana Sahu, Dr. Shilpi Bhattacharya
Abstract: This article closely analyzes Bapsi Sidhwa's storytelling strategies and the way they depict women in literature. Through her distinctive narrative techniques. Sidhwa provides readers with a profound comprehension of female characters and their functions in literature by shedding light on the nuances of women's lives. The purpose of this research is to look deeply into Sidhwa's works in order to learn how she shaped narrative craft and how that affected female characters in literature. The article will focus on how Sidhwa constructs women's stories. exploring character development, plot structure. and narrative voice in relation to significant ideas from both narrative theory and feminist literary criticism. This study aims to enlighten many ways in which women's stories are told by dismembering the language, symbols, and images that Sidhwa uses to narrate her story. Further, this research investigates the broader socio-cultural contexts in which Sidhwa writes, examining the ways in which her narratives engage with and respond to questions of power, gender, and identity. It presents a comparative method that covers all of Sidhwa's works to describe how her narrative strategies changed over time and what this portends in term of women's literary representation. This research aims to enlighten the impact Sidhwa has on women's writing and the way narrative construction shapes the way women are portrayed in literature in the end. The present study closely examines the techniques of Sidhwa's storytelling in an attempt to uncover the complex nature of women's tales in literature. In doing so it will provide a new understanding of how female experiences are represented and understood in literature.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21870786
