Social Control and constraint in Mahaeswetha Devi's short stories

Abstract

Literature is the mirror that reflects the society. Through literature we can get an clear idea about the path that man has passed through out his life, his lifestyle, culture, political activity and their effects, social change, and the place of man in society. The writer takes the experiences he has received and the experiences from the society and gives them to the society. In this way, the female writers understand the problems of the society and how women are affected by it. Women writers through their works picturizes how the government and patriarchal society complicate the women in their day to day life. Translation literature is important in bringing the spoken works of these multilingual women writers to others who do not know their respective languages. Rabindranath Tagore, Trilokhya Nath Muko Bhatia, Prabhat Kumar and Sarath Chandra were very popular in the field of Bengali short stories. Followed by them women writers like Asha Poorna Devi, Vani Roy and Maheshweta Devi have also made a mark. Among them, Mahaeswetha Devi is a Bengali writer. The purpose of this study is to investigate the social control and constraint that emerges in Mahawswetha Devi’s translated short stories from a sociological perspective.