Abstract
This paper analyses Fahmida Riaz’s The Daughters of Aai (2007) from subaltern perspective. This Pakistani English short story represents rural women of Sindh, especially the physically-challenged Fatimah as a victim of sexual assault, unwanted pregnancy, and the threat of honor-killing (Karo-Kari). Inspiring from Subaltern Studies’ approach, we choose this story for analysis to examine the explicit and implicit aspects of marginalization of the target women at the socio-cultural level from Guha and Spivakian subaltern perspectives. We further examine the hegemonic factors conspiring against the suppression of the women in terms of binary opposition. By doing this, we attempt to create some space for the women (subaltern) in academia.Following text-based analysis, this paper first examines Fatimah’s story which highlights different aspects of the women suppression in rural areas of Sindh. Next, we examine the relationship between male and female characters to disclose the multiple hegemonic factors against subalternity of the female characters in detail. Finally, this paper argues that the women is subaltern for the men consider them as the objects of honor, desire, and interest
Sabah Zaib,, Ambreen Shahriar, , Sumera Umrani. (2017) A Critical Analysis of Riaz’s Story The Daughters of Aai from Subaltern Perspective, The ELF Annual Research Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1.
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