Abstract
This paper addresses the horned dilemma of sustenance of women’s
suppression in Pakistani patriarchal societyby critically analyzing a
renowned Pakistani Urdu novel, Meri Zaat Zara-e-Benishan, by Umera
Ahmed.Apparently, the novel seems to raise voice in favour of oppressed
Pakistani women, butbehind the lines, it works as a tool to reassure the
women to bear the injustices and inequalities in the patriarchal society
as their destiny. The analysis of the novelis carried out under the
umbrella of critical discourse analysis by employing three-dimensional
framework of Norman Fairclough (2015). The research design of this
qualitative study consists of the basic tenets of Critical Discourse
Analysis, Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, Feminism, Lacan’s
Psychoanalysis and Moscovici’s theory of social representations. It has
been found out that the narratives like Meri Zaat Zara-e-Benishanhave
been paving the ways for the sustenance of male’s hegemony. They
impart the message that the women are subaltern and subservient to the
traditions, values and norms of the society. They are bound and
restricted to the boundaries raised by the demons of the societal and
cultural norms. The writer stamps the destiny of the women through the
depiction of docile and subservient female protagonists like Saba. The
chains of social, cultural and religious norms are only for women
whereas the men of the system are considered mostly as exempted from
these restraints.
Muhammad Akbar Khan, Shazia Riaz Dar. (2017) Female Subalternity in Urdu Literature: A Feminist Critical Analysis of UmeraAhmed’s Meri Zaat Zara-e-Benishan , Mayar , Volume 17-18 , Issue 2.
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