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Title PSYCHO-SOCIO STUDY OF MANIZA NAQVI’S I’LL FIND MY WAY AND DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN’S IN OTHER ROOMS, OTHER WONDERS

Author(s) Maria Nawaz

Abstract Language has a vital role in controlling minds, thoughts and actions. For ages, man remained producer of literary texts that made language phallocentric. Post-feminists revolt against the misrepresentation of femininity by male writers. French feminists, particularly Helene Cixous, addresses the issues regarding psycho-sexual development of a woman in a patriarchal set-up. The purpose of the study is to investigate women’s psychological suppression in a male dominated society where language is strictly based upon oppositions in the Pakistani short fiction in English. It is also intended to explore, through the textual analysis of the selected short stories, the role societal norms play in suppressing women’s thoughts and creativity. Along with indicating patriarchal injustice towards women, the study also purports to explore the ways to get out of linguistic and societal oppression by inventing a new form of writing known as ‘woman speaks’. The researcher has studied symbolic norms, figurative use of language (paradoxes, similes, metaphors, oxymoron, etc.) and imagery to interpret linguistic stereotypes in a patriarchal society. It is an exploratory research and textual analysis is applied for the analysis of selected stories. It has been analyzed in the Pakistani short fiction in English that genders have been represented in numerous ways. Writers, in fact, mostly produce phallocentric texts to privilege men in society. On the other hand, feminist writers portray women in a new state of mind, urging them to speak themselves. Some writers write about women who are being silenced by patriarchy and how they can transform the history by presenting characters in short stories from subservient and submissive to independent and self-determining. Whereas, some writers are working hard to rebuild patriarchal notions by incorporating binary opposites in their writings.

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Publication Date 2018-10-30

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