Date of Award
1-1-1997
Document Type
Thesis - ECU Access Only
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Faculty
Faculty of Arts
First Supervisor
Dr Susan Ash
Abstract
This novel deals with the ‘migrant experience’ as seen through the eyes of a young Indian woman, who has, through choice and circumstance, become the displaced ‘other’ in white Anglo-Saxon Australia. The novel focuses on the construction of an identity for the migrant woman and explores the themes of loss and familial rape within tradition bound societies. In the novel, and in the essay that follows, I hope to highlight my concerns with migrant females, rape within families and within cultures and how these issues are discussed in contemporary Australia. The narrative strategy of the novel is a limited first person point of view, with occasional ‘breaks’ and forays into the minds of other characters. Written in prose, within a postcolonial framework, my novel and essay are attempts to deal with the psychological fragmentation that accompanies both physical displacement and sexual violation.
LCSH Subject Headings
Edith Cowan University - Faculty of Arts -Dissertations.
Rape in literature
Dissertations
Recommended Citation
Budroodin, R. (1997). On equal terms : a novel. Edith Cowan University. Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/931