Roopa Rani G.S, K Charles Godwin
Indian English literature witnessed many writers to portrayed life, and society in a vivid manner and the Portrayal of women in literature is as old as literature itself. The impact of the feminist movement helped women writers in breaking the social and literary norms of the past and explore women’s plight. They depicted the marginalized women in society’s identity crisis, and gender inequalities through their narratives. One such effective narrative genre is a memoir which is based on the writer’s personal memories and the factual assertions made by the writer. This paper aims to analyse a memoir, Reshma Qureshi and Tania Singh’s “Being Reshma” to demonstrate how a memoir articulates violence inflicted on women in society. It attempts to illustrate Reshma’s journey from oppression to expression exposing incidents of domestic violence.
Marginalization, Acid-attack survivor, Memoir, Violence