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<p>Who is a woman? In a gender-fluid typical world, the answer to  this  question  invites  a  serious  exposition  of  non-linear  and  non-binary possibilities. As the biological definition becomes more inclusive of  fragmented  identities,  it  becomes  extremely  complicated  to  arrive at a  simplistic, innocent truth of recognition. Within the third-world dynamics, this question invites more dimensions. Set against the backdrop of mass female genocide on the occasion of perfecting cloning, Manjula Padmanabhan in her works of futuristic dystopian fiction, <italic>Escape</italic> (2015) and <italic>The Island of Lost Girls</italic> (2017), has taken up this issue of womanhood and furtively trodden to arrive at a philosophical space that allows the modernist epistemological notion of a “woman” as a well-defined category to reincarnate within a postmodern paradigm to help locate women beyond the generic nuances of reproduction and menial labour. Through analysing the selective works, this research article aims at arriving close to the model of womanhood and depicting the plurality of truth in action.</p>
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Who is a woman? In a gender-fluid typical world, the answer to  this  question  invites  a  serious  exposition  of  non-linear  and  non-binary possibilities. As the biological definition becomes more inclusive of  fragmented  identities,  it  becomes  extremely  complicated  to  arrive at a  simplistic, innocent truth of recognition. Within the third-world dynamics, this question invites more dimensions. Set against the backdrop of mass female genocide on the occasion of perfecting cloning, Manjula Padmanabhan in her works of futuristic dystopian fiction, Escape (2015) and The Island of Lost Girls (2017), has taken up this issue of womanhood and furtively trodden to arrive at a philosophical space that allows the modernist epistemological notion of a “woman” as a well-defined category to reincarnate within a postmodern paradigm to help locate women beyond the generic nuances of reproduction and menial labour. Through analysing the selective works, this research article aims at arriving close to the model of womanhood and depicting the plurality of truth in action.

Beyond Reproduction: An Epistemological  Search for a “Woman” in  Manjula Padmanabhan’s <italic>Escape</italic> and  <italic>The Island of Lost Girls</italic>

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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Beyond Reproduction: An Epistemological  Search for a “Woman” in  Manjula Padmanabhan’s  and  

Who is a woman? In a gender-fluid typical world, the answer to  this  question  invites  a  serious  exposition  of  non-linear  and  non-binary possibilities....

Beyond Reproduction: An Epistemological Search for a “Woman” in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape and The Island of Lost Girls

Published Online: Nov 15, 2023

Page range: 37 - 53

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2023-0003

Keywords
epistemology, dystopian fiction, woman, reproduction, Indian fiction

© 2023 Argha Basu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Beyond Reproduction: An Epistemological Search for a “Woman” in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape and The Island of Lost Girls

Published Online: Nov 15, 2023

Page range: 37 - 53

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2023-0003

Keywordsepistemology, dystopian fiction, woman, reproduction, Indian fiction

© 2023 Argha Basu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
epistemology, dystopian fiction, woman, reproduction, Indian fiction