FEMINIST SHORT STORIES

Feminist Short Stories mainly deal with personal relationship , prejudices and l oneliness of women and many other women centric topics which the male failed to understand or comprehend.

A Short Story is a genre in literature which has a narrative prose and is often fictional. Feminist Short stories are women centric, or women authored small pieces of literature which are shorter in comparison to any other literary piece. Short Stories basically revolved round single plot,single setting, few characters and focused on a short period of time. They generally conclude with a vaccum that leaves the woman protagionist in a more comfortable situation, but with an uncertainly regarding their future.

Feminist Short Stories are often marked for the focus that it gives on the social differences and attrocities that are faced by females in the world. Feminist Short Stories can have a Female protagonis t, who emerges as a prominenet figure who is socially and morally strong. A Feminist Short Story can also be a work written by some Famous Feminist writers who deals with topic on feminism and puts it in a fictional prosaic style, can also be termed as Feminist Short Stories .

Some Famous Feminist Short Stories Writer are:

l Margaret Atwood : In her work (surfacing),(1972). She delved deep into the world of women to searches the meaning of her life.

l Elizabeth Bowen : Her stories mainly focussed on personal relationships and its problem. Her stories often talks about internal conflicts. Some of her famous works are, The House in Paris(1935), The Death of the Heart(1938).

l Mavis Gallant : Green Water,Green Sky(1959),is a story which deals with Mother-Daughter Relationship. Other stories written by her are: A Fairly Good Time(1970), My Heart is Broken(1964).

l Shirley Jackson : “The Lottery”(1948),tells us a story about human sacrifice.

In today's world of feminism, Feminist Short Stories have a huge readership across the globe.