The inherent discursivity, entailing the composite category of ‘The third world women’ hinges on many contentious contours of female subjectivity, its genealogical and teleological subservience and submission to patriarchy, and the subsequent re-assertion of their identities and different female roles within the given rubric of patriarchal capitalist social order of the former colonies through strategic subversion, vis-à-vis negotiation of certain patriarchal ideals.The select novels, i.e. Anuradha Marwah Roy’s The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta (1993) and Advaita Kala’s Almost Single (2007); from the discursive category of Indian genre fiction narrate two intersecting stories of two middle class Indian women, who have migrated to Delhi in pursuit of empowerment and to transcend the circumscribed trajectories of parochialism and stereotypical tropes of patriarchal order. Drawing inferences from these two texts, the present paper would like to look into the ethical question of women’s empowerment in India, so as to ‘problematize’ the much appropriated subversion of gender roles, through a ‘palimpsestic’ assertion of female subjectivity , as evidenced in the seemingly divergent experiences of the two protagonists, within the unstable contexts of a postcolonial nation. Having engaged with the contested notion ‘female consciousness’, the paper further seeks to examine the veracity of such changes in the lived experiences of the women within the ever-shifting paradigms of ‘post-national’ and ‘post-globalization’ Indian milieu, while being placed against the multifaceted impediments, faced by them to bridge the two extremes; personal and professional affairs. Last but not least, the paper would also seek to shed some light on the equivocality, bordering the genealogical and generic classification(s) of the ‘genre fiction’, often under the charade of ‘literary aesthetics’ and critical/wide reception of these literary narratives.

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处于十字路口的女性：重新配置精选印度类型小说中的性别角色

包含“第三世界女性”复合类别的内在话语性取决于女性主体性的许多有争议的轮廓，其谱系和目的论的从属和对父权制的服从，以及随后对她们的身份和特定女性角色的重新主张前殖民地父权资本主义社会秩序的标题通过战略颠覆，相对于某些父权理想的谈判。精选小说，即 Anuradha Marwah Roy 的 Geetika Mehendiratta 的高等教育（1993）和 Advaita Kala 的几乎单身（2007） ; 从印度风俗小说的话语类别中，讲述了两个印度中产阶级女性的两个相互交叉的故事，他们迁移到德里以追求赋权并超越狭隘的狭隘轨迹和父权秩序的陈规定型比喻。从这两篇文章中得出推论，本论文想研究印度妇女赋权的伦理问题，以便通过对女性主体性的“翻版”断言“问题化”对性别角色的非常适当的颠覆，正如所证明的在两个主人公看似不同的经历中，在后殖民国家的不稳定环境中。在探讨了有争议的“女性意识”概念后，本文进一步试图检验在“后国家”和“后全球化”印度环境不断变化的范式中，女性生活经历的这种变化的真实性，在面对多方面的障碍时，面对它们以弥合两个极端；个人和职业事务。最后但并非最不重要的一点是，该论文还将试图阐明与“流派小说”的谱系学和一般分类接壤的模棱两可的问题，通常在“文学美学”和批评/广泛接受的幌子下文学叙事。