The items were structured on a modified four-point Likert scale. The instrument which was validated by three experts in relevant fields has two parts: part A elicited the respondents’ bio-data while part B consisted of five items which elicited information to answer the research hypothesis. Questionnaire was used for data collection. A sample size of two thousand, four hundred respondents was selected for the study. The population comprised all adult male and female rural dwellers from the three out of the six states in the Zone (Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States). This study investigated the extent to which indigenous communication media relates to the utilization of development information in the rural communities of South-South Zone, Nigeria. These novels portray the picture of the transformation of gender perspective. The protagonists of the novels are seen struggling through different phases of transformation. The focus of this paper is to explore the gender perspective in the novels of ‘God of Small Things’ written by Arundhati Roy (1992) and Ranganayakamma’s ‘Stree’ (1997). Hence, decided to look at the Gender perspectives in the Telugu & English novels of South Indian writers. Most of the research work have been done on English, Hindi, Urdu, Panjabi and other language fictions but not on Southern Languages i.e. They compressed the situation of the modern woman and their writings reflected a variety of shades, colours and visions of gender. Indian women writers have deliberately sought the novel as their medium of expression with a strong element of protest. After the gender revolution in 1970s, in Indian literature writing by women about women has become a socio-political act. Age-old social barriers were very strong and it was impossible to break them at a stretch.
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