அம்மையின் சிறுகதைகளில் மரபும் எதிர்மரபும்

Tradition and Anti-Tradition in Ammai’s Short Stories

Abstract

Women did not enter literature in large numbers during the period when Tamil text emerged and developed. They too have made their contribution to literature when forced to write. Most of the novelists appeared in women. Some of them also wrote short stories. In the early period short stories wrote about the ways in which women had to conform to patriarchal social norms. Through their writings, some exposed the ideological oppression of women in the patriarchal society. Ambai is one of them. His short stories started appearing in the early sixties. He invented ideas that questioned tradition in his stories. She wrote short stories with the attitude that women should put aside anything that threatens their existence. This article describes that he was a counter-traditionist who refuted various conventional views.