A Gynocritic’s Oeuvre: Daughters Towards Balance for Better.

The language employed by women authors bear a ‘difference’ guaranteed by the author’s femaleness. The evolution of the feminine aesthetic is complete when the ‘psychodynamics of the individual or collective female literary tradition’ (Showalter 1982: 15) receives the vindication of the canon of ‘great’ literature, at par with the literature authored by men. Women writers successfully continue the tradition of ecriture féminine, or an exclusive style of women’s writing, through a voice of their own. It contributes towards strengthening the exclusive style of women’s writing ‘which draws upon the formless primeval song that emanates from the voice of the mother’ (Bhaduri and Malhotra 2016: 112) which the male writing often attempts to erase thereby naturalizing their gender roles as the virtuous woman, the seductress and the sacrificing mother (Nayar 2010: 94). The patriarchal mechanisms augmented through the naturalization of power structures are interrogated through women’s writings which contribute towards the birth of a literature of their own bearing a feminine creativity and inventiveness to represent her female protagonists’ ‘journey towards self-fulfillment with Jungian rites of passage’ (Baym 1978: 11). The metaphorical concept of ‘female identity’ is an inherent process dependent upon a mother-daughter bond, which the female creators/authors develop with their female characters (Gardiner 1982: 179); and besides being the hero of the author’s creation, she also becomes the author’s daughter as this connection contributes towards women’s psychological identities (Gardiner 1978: 244). Therefore the female authorship creates this association and an identity of this association contributes towards the development of a distinct engagement between the woman writer and her characters and ‘indicates an analogous relationship between woman reader and character’ (Gardiner 1982: 179). Through this literal identity often a reader feels remarkable and cogent in spite of being pharmaceutically subjected to a state of identity dissipation.