Fragmented Selves and Commodified Bodies: A Posthumanist Exploration of Gender, Identity and Power in Shobhaa De’s Sisters

Abstract

Indian Writing in English has ascertained a separate position for on its own in the field of global literature. Many varied issues are discussed in Indian Writing in English. The present Indian writings have been deliberating on the experience of the contemporary state of affairs along with the picturisation of life in India and Indians residing abroad reflecting on the Indian culture, custom, social norms, and even Indian history. The women writers, particularly, have been contributing enormously and significantly. They write mostly about the sufferings of the women with psychological perspective. They have elaborately depicted the posthuman feministic elements of the novels and have taken in the perspectives of women. The Indian woman writer, Shobhaa De delves deeply into the psychic elements and is very popular for her distinctive  riting style, methodology, and subject matter. The spotlight of her book Sisters is women’s identity struggles in a patriarchal society. It is observed that not only is a woman treated like an object, but animalism is also
practiced against her. In her novel, Sisters, Shobhaa De articulates her anger at the patriarchal structure of society—where masculinity seems to always mistreat and abuse the feminine. This paper is an attempt to illuminate on Identity issues, Gender discrimination and the Role of power.