A Feministic Comparison and Linking of Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe

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other by the powerful male/s of the society, irrespective of their country or state or their colour.

Key words: feminism, white, pain, comparative literature.

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Comparative literature is a literary study across cultural, national and regional barriers. Comparative literature is one way of widening the critical awareness, correcting taste and perhaps arriving at proper judgments. Comparative study of literature aims at the creation of a universal structure of oneness. It is the assessment of two literatures done by using various critical theories. It is the study of similarities and differences. The main objective is to study the interrelationship between different literatures. Here literature is studied not in isolation but in comparison, it would be comparison of two or more or even dissimilar forms or trends within the literature or in the same language. It would also cut across national boundaries and compare themes, literary forms of authors from the various languages ...

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she does not have power, is treated as sex object or a procreating machine, has fewer political and social rights and is abused. Feminism explores the cultural dimension of women’s material life.
Women writers in the contemporary world enjoy a greater measure of freedom and no area of life remains exclusively as the male domain. Women do explore prohibited regions of experience boldly. However, the vital investigation is to what extent the modern women writers have succeeded in demolishing the traditional image of women as a mere sex object. It has not yet brought a radical transformation in public attitude woman-man relationship. Even today an average woman feels uncertain about ...

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