DUSK TO DAWN: A FEMINIST STUDY OF THE SPACE BETWEEN US

Abstract

Thrity Umrigar lives in Ohio yet has depicted the plight of Indian women
in patriarchal hegemonic society as grounded in her psyche. This paper discusses the
lives of two women who try to fit in the stifling circumstances as advised to them by
oppressive society but eventually on facing tribulations take different courses. On one
hand is Sera, an upper middle class woman who remains subservient and thus sacrifices
her personality and her existence fades into oblivion and on the other is Bhima, a triply
marginalized because of her class, caste and gender, breaks the traditional notions of
women passed on to generations and carves a new standard for women to emulate.