Intersectionality, Matrix of Domination and Female Agency in Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column
This paper investigates how Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column presents the oppression of women in the socio-political and cultural contexts of the Indo-Pak society. Patricia Collins's views of intersectionality and matrix of domination and Wrede's concept of agency serve as a theoretical framework for this research. Intersectionality works through a matrix of domination that includes four domains of power: structural, disciplinary, hegemonic and interpersonal, which further serves to organize, regulate, maintain and internalize oppression. The study is significant as it intends to unravel the fact that in Sunlight on a Broken Column, gender is not the only factor causing subjugation. Oppression keeps on multiplying with the inclusion of several aspects of individual identity in general and female identity in particular, including age, color, creed, religion, race and sexual orientation. The research establishes that despite intersecting forces of suppression, there still is room for the female agency as the character of Laila foregrounds the fact that the existing situation can be challenged and reverted by few individuals found inside the suppressed groups.
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(1) Ali Usman Saleem
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Sadaf Rasheed
Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Asim Aqeel
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities & Linguistics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Saleem, A. U., Rasheed, S., & Aqeel, A. (2019). Intersectionality, Matrix of Domination and Female Agency in Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(I), 403-409. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).52
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CHICAGO : Saleem, Ali Usman, Sadaf Rasheed, and Asim Aqeel. 2019. "Intersectionality, Matrix of Domination and Female Agency in Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (I): 403-409 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).52
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HARVARD : SALEEM, A. U., RASHEED, S. & AQEEL, A. 2019. Intersectionality, Matrix of Domination and Female Agency in Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column. Global Social Sciences Review, IV, 403-409.
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MHRA : Saleem, Ali Usman, Sadaf Rasheed, and Asim Aqeel. 2019. "Intersectionality, Matrix of Domination and Female Agency in Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column." Global Social Sciences Review, IV: 403-409
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MLA : Saleem, Ali Usman, Sadaf Rasheed, and Asim Aqeel. "Intersectionality, Matrix of Domination and Female Agency in Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column." Global Social Sciences Review, IV.I (2019): 403-409 Print.
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OXFORD : Saleem, Ali Usman, Rasheed, Sadaf, and Aqeel, Asim (2019), "Intersectionality, Matrix of Domination and Female Agency in Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column", Global Social Sciences Review, IV (I), 403-409
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TURABIAN : Saleem, Ali Usman, Sadaf Rasheed, and Asim Aqeel. "Intersectionality, Matrix of Domination and Female Agency in Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. I (2019): 403-409. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).52