Female identy in partition literature: A comparative study of Bapsy Sidhwa's ice candy man and Amrita Pritam
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2014
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Central University of Punjab
Abstract
Partition of India was the great historical event in 1947. Partition affected the millions of people and changed the whole scenario of the sub-continent.
Women were most affected in partition era. Feminism as a movement explores the
suppressing status of women in the Patriarchal society. In the domain of
patriarchal culture, woman is a social construct. Feminism is a highly innovative
concept representing a significant departure from the traditional mode of critical
evaluation. The present study tries to investigate the portrayal of the partition by
the two writers from India and Pakistan Bapsi Sidhwa and Amrita Pritam with their
novels, Ice Candy Man and Pinjar . In these novels both the writers represents the
series of female characters who have survived in the chaotic time of 1947. They
project realistically the women's plight and exploitation in the patriarchal society. It
explores how men establish their masculine power and fulfil their desire by
assaulting women. Through the feminism theory, the present study has tried to
locate the identity of women which changes in partition and their actual identity is
broken down and they have to create a new identity which mostly forced on them.
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Female identity, Traditional role, Female suppression, Marginalisation, Patriarchal society
Citation
Nancy (2014) Female identy in partition literature A comparative study of bapsy sidhwa's ice candy man and amrita pritam.