Indugopan’s Gendered Spaces: A geo-spatial reading of ‘Twinkle Rosayum Panthrandu Kaamukanmaarum’ and ‘Pushpavalliyum Yakshivasanthayum’

Abstract

The spatial turn in Humanities foregrounded the importance of locales in fiction and the study of history and culture. Space was now seen as a plot element that played an important role in directing narratives and the arcs of characters in fiction. This paper attempts to critically locate and analyse geographical places in the work of G. R. Indugopan, an author in Malayalam. The short stories titled, ‘Twinkle Rosayum Panthrandu Kaamukanmaarum’ and ‘Pushpavalliyum Yakshivasanthayum’  will be analysed as short stories that gives life to the immediate spatial environment and how it impacts the characters inhabiting them. This paper attempts to look at the relationship between[female] bodies and space and how its positioning creates a distinctive spatial practice by closely looking at the different geographies that the author attributes to the characters in the selected short stories. It also looks at how new discourses of power and resistance are created against attempted invasions of body and space.