Abstract
The present article seeks to present a critique of Suleri’s feminist views
in her twin accounts which are written in the backdrop of her personal
memories and experiences in Pakistan. Using Suleri’s paradoxical
claim as a point of departure that “there are no women in the third
world”, the present analysis is informed by Mohanty’s theorization
about categorizing women into such simplistic, monolithic and a
historical form ationsuch as Third-world women. It not only tends to
undermine the historical and cultural specifics which constitute women
as subjects within and outside Pakistani culture, but also demonstrates
a flawed perspective of Pakistani women by declaring them complacent
with their actual or imagined marginalization – hence positioning them
in a sisterhood of oppression instead of uniting them in a solidarity of
transformation and resistance.
Asma Aftab, Aalia Sohail Khan. (2017) NO WOMAN’S LAND: THE FEMINIST VIEWS OF SULERI IN THE MEATLESS DAYS AND BOYS WILL BE BOYS, Pakistan , Volume 53, Issue 1.
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