Voicing the Unheard: Kavery Nambisan’s Creative Expressions as a Platform for Women’s Empowerment in Marginalized Communities

Abstract

In the vast tapestry of Indian society, there exists countless voices that have been silenced, marginalized and erased. In this context Kavery Nambisan’s creative expressions emerge as a powerful counter-narrative, amplifying the voices of marginalized women and challenging the dominant discourses that have sought to silence them. Through her novels, Nambisan has crafted a nuanced and unflinching portrayal of the lives of women in marginalized communities, rendering visible their struggles, triumphs and aspirations. By doing so, she creates a platform for women’s empowerment that is radical, subversive and deeply humane. Like other contemporary women writers, Kavery Nambisan too is aware about the existential predicament of women in our society. The characteristic woman inhabiting her fictional world seeks to challenge her patronizing surroundings where she is taken as being ontologically subservient to man. This feature in Indian woman emerges as the fulcrum of the fiction written by women in post-independent India. Women characters are delineated in detail in her novels, though not from the straitjacketing feminist point of view.