Feminism And Postmodernism In The Handmaid's Tale

Postmodernism is fully committed to accommodating the voices of the eccentric and the marginalized. Herein lays the close connection between feminism and postmodernism. The women writer manipulates stances that critique domination and thus lays bare the multivocal worlds of different societies and different cultures. Indian women writers assert that a Feminist theory should be explicitly historical, attuned to the cultural specificity of different societies and periods and to different groups within societies and periods. They wish to analyse the workings of patriarchy in all its manifestations, desire to think in terms of pluralities and diversities rather than unities and universals and articulate ways of thinking about gender without simply reversing the old hierarchies or confirming them.

In order to achieve these goals, Indian feminist writers have exerted their energies to deconstruct the past, reconstruct a more meaningful present. They have unravelled the thick tapestries of male hegemony and analysed the reasons for the persistent reproduction of conscious and unconscious presumptions about women and they have knitted up a woman’s tradition. the present paper intends to explore the much debated problematic of postmodernist and feminist ideologies by

She presents a modern form of woman hunting that aims at subjugating woman’s power that is her fertility. Atwood a sensitive and consciously self-aware writer explores and expresses the subjugating of women in a patriarchal society . She believes that the silencing of women victimization is not only through patriarchal attitudes but also through woman’s consciousness. People who are after power cannot tolerate imagination, power to communicate and hope. In order to combat it, one should recognize the source of oppression, express anger and find ways for