Comparison of Reversing Male and Female Roles in Javeri’s No Body Killed Her and Joshi’s The Henna Artist: A Corpus Based Study

Abstract

The present study depicts how males are often associated with the position of bread winner and women with the job of homemaker and how roles are reversed; men fulfilling the obligations of women and women completing the duties of men. This research study compares the fluctuating gender roles in the selected novels of Javeri’s Nobody Killed Her and Joshi’s The Henna Artist. The researchers implement the textual framework of changing gender roles to analyze the male/female roles to fathom how gender roles may change. Since this is a comparative study, the investigation looks at the representation of gender in Indian and Pakistani writers' literature. The study also emphasizes how gender issues and gender representation in various countries are portrayed by both authors. This corpus-based study aids in our analysis of the selected text and how gender roles are portrayed in Indian and Pakistani writing. The changing gender roles in the two books are found and examined using qualitative methods in this corpus-based study. These two novels are analyzed with the help of concordance tool. AntConc software is used to investigate the concordance, word list, collocation, frequency and stat. Once all the processing steps are completed. This research is based on the mutating gender roles in two novels with Indian and Pakistani context cultures. The study is only limited to textual analysis of the two novels. The study identified various themes in the novels like domestic abuse, arranged marriage, caste and class which are common in present. The findings show the cultural differences amongst both cultures represent that gender roles are mutating frequently. Both novels shared that by becoming wealthy and powerful can alter the traditional role of gender.