Women, History And Faith: Suleri's Critique Of Pakistan's National Culture In Meatless Days And Boys Will Be Boys
Sara Suleri is divided between her fascination for her father's strong character and her repulsion for the consequent effect on woman's space in family life, connoting a critique of Pakistani patriarchal society in which women, irrespective of their social status, suffer from marginalization. Although Suleri's Boys Will Be Boys is an elegy for her father, as she announces in the sub-title of the work, she manages her tilt toward her father despite her advocacy of the woman's space miserably shrunk to domestic life in Pakistani society. Besides womenÂ’s position, she questions the dominant version of history and the state's political manipulation of religion for ulterior motives. She is close to Boehmer's theorization of the elitist continuities and intimacies with a view that develops from geographically and historically multiple contexts and histories. Her role as a native intellectual is two-pronged: her view is colored by Western discourse, but her status as a 'representative' Pakistani voice is also significant. This article analyzes how far Suleri's representation of women, religion and history of Pakistani society is colored by Western context.
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Pakistani Literature in English, Nation, Representation, Feminism, Patriarchy, Gender, Sara Suleri
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(1) Ghulam Murtaza
Associate Professor, Department of English, GC University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Mazhar Hayat
Professor, Department of English, GC University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Syed Ali Waqar Hashmi
Research Assistant, Department of English, GC University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan
The awakening has spoken to women's issues across time in many corners of the world regardless of caste, faith, nationality. Being a semi-autobiographical American-Novel, The Awakening was a catharsis against the late-19th-century Victorian constraints on Southern American women. The text challenged the hold of Victorian shackles on women's social, personal, marital, and sexual rights. Although the text had poor critical reception in its own time, it was reaccredited in the 1950s. Since then, the novel has kept on enlightening its readers through its powerful female-characters across times and cultures. This study revisits how the text reflected women's individualism; how readers responded to it, and how it has contributed a change to women's position. The analogy also signifies the degree to which the study could encourage the suppressed women's voice in Pakistan against—social, personal, marital, sexual —injustices that are done to them under cultural shackles, religious romanticizing, and androcentric norms.
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The Awakening; feminism; women; late 19th-century; patriarchy; Pakistan; USA
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(1) Imran Ali
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU), Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Uzma Imtiaz
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU), Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Zainab Akram
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University, Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan.
Feminist Discourses and Multiple Identities: A Postcolonial Representation of Woman in Hyder's River of Fire
This research paper foregrounds the postcolonial representation of women in Hyder's River of Fire. The novel covers a large span of history. In the entire novel, the female writer presents a lot of women in the backdrop of socio-political and historical backdrop. The western totalizing and Universalist discourses of feminism do not explain well the scope of representation of women in this novel. Even third-world feminism does not suffice here. The research shows that the novelist consciously writes back the colonial and postcolonial feminist representation of women. The analysis highlights that the question of marginalization and subjugation must be seen with multiple factors such as history, society, culture and class. The novel presents multiple identities of women in the historical flux of more than two thousand years.
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Feminist Discourse, Multiple Identities, Postcolonial Feminism, Third World Feminism, Western Feminism
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(1) Kanwal Zahra
Assistant Professor, Centre for Languages and Translation Studies, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Ahmad Nadeem
Assistant Professor, Government Ambala Muslim College Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
(3) Aisha Jadoon
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Lack of Justice in Contemporary Society as Depicted in Ghani Khan's Poem Badshahi
This study is conducted to discover elements of injustice in contemporary society through the poetry of the Pashtun incredible and legendary poet Ghani Khan. The poetry of Ghani Khan depicts the elements of revolt, injustices, cruelty, and exploitation in his contemporary society. The social injustices, the enslavement of poor and deprived ones have been pointed out in his poetry. This research work is all about social injustice in contemporary society and the violation of human rights. Ghani Khan pass on a solid message in his poem ‘Badshahi’ that Allah is seeing all the creatures that how they are carrying out their obligations. The study prescribed a broader vision of modern society that running after this world is just like chasing after a shadow, you may get nothing. Individuals these days are running after luxuries and worldly wishes. But at the conclusion of the day this control, cash, and extravagances will get to be a revile for them.
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Injustice, Society, Poems, Rights, Feminism, Discrimination
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(1) Nazish
Lecturer, Department of English, Women University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Sadaf Riaz
Graduate Scholar, Department of English, Women University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Haseena Safdar
Graduate Scholar, Department of English, Women University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
