Exploring the Patriarchal Oppression and Predicament of Women: A Radical Feministic Analysis of Mitra Phukan's The Collector's Wife and Arupa Patangia Kalita's Felanee

Abstract

This Research paper aims to investigate the violence against women and the repercussions of political upheaval as reflected in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector's Wife and Arupa Patangia Kalita’s novel Felanee in the northeastern Indian literature. Women have long endured social injustices based on patriarchy and experience a range of socially imposed discrimination. Society regards women as mere by-products of sentimental domesticity, whereas males dominate and sphere head all the public domain as the rightful inheritors. Women are the worst affected by these geopolitical manoeuvres and are more physiologically affected. Not only do these acts of discrimination jeopardise public safety and tranquility, but they also have a profound impact on the lives of women. The literature of North-East India has several instances of this exploitation. This paper also highlights the radical feminist theory, Mitra Phukan and AP Kalita clearly explained the patriarchal system, which is based on gender roles and is characterized by prioritizing men's domination and interests over women's and reinforced by sexuality and motherhood while valuing female sexuality and fertility in Assam culture.