Narrating Space, Reclaiming Power: Feminist Cartographies in Indian Women's Regional Literature

Author(s)	Ms. Megha Patil, Dr. Stella Steven
Country	India
Abstract	Contemporary Indian women’s regional literatures, particularly in English translation, employ spatial reimaginings as powerful forms of feminist resistance and transformation. These narratives subvert confined, domestic, or socially restricted spaces, turning them into arenas of psychological assertion and political agency. In doing so, they challenge the marginalization of women within both societal and literary cartographies. Feminist writing here emerges as a spatial intervention—redefining boundaries, reclaiming margins, and rewriting the politics of belonging. Drawing on spatial theories by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Doreen Massey, and Bell Hooks, this paper examines how regional women writers negotiate the gendered, domestic, urban, and liminal spaces that structure patriarchal control. Through close readings of select works by Bani Basu (Bengali), K. R. Meera (Malayalam), Qurratulain Hyder (Urdu), and Geetanjali Shree (Hindi), the paper argues that space in these texts is not a passive backdrop but a dynamic construct, deeply embedded with power, identity, memory, and resistance.
Keywords	Women’s space, resistance, narratives, spatial discourse
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 16, Issue 3, July-September 2025
Published On	2025-07-18
DOI	https://doi.org/10.71097/IJSAT.v16.i3.7101
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g9t2ws

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