Table, Chair, and the Persistent Patriarchy (original) (raw)

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts

Abstract

The chapter deals with the short story “Going by Tables and Chairs,” which is in fact an excerpt from the long essay “Meju Kurchiya Moolaka,” translated into English by Prakash Belawadi. The essay written by Vaidehi, one of the most significant names in Kannada literature, is a mixture of the writing styles of a short story and an essay. It deals with the gender politics revolving around the most common of the objects in our lives today: a table and a chair. The chapter attempts to analyze the operation of patriarchal norms in most Indian households; it also provides an insight into the minds of elder women, who with time have learned to discipline the younger women and girls into obedience and submission to men.

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