Abstract
Tariq Ali’s Night of the Golden Butterfly combines past
and present times in its treatment of the theme of history with a visible
feminine difference. The important women characters in the novel serve
to indicate the shift of the narrative across historical times and also pass
judgments on the monologic discourse of history of both past and
contemporary socio-political spheres. The voice of Jindie, for example,
represents alternative interruptions to historiography and a link between
the past and present through woman’s consciousness and feminine
difference. The other voices comprise of the characters of Zaynab and
Naughty Lateef. Besides them, the minor characters Anjum and Zarina
also get a chance to be represented. The novel offers a space for the
untold stories of these women characters. These versions are related
with alternative versions of the feminine world with regards to women’s
oppression, stereotype images and ideological bashing at the hands of
patriarchy.
Dr. Sohail Ahmad Saeed. (2018) Women Matter in Night of the Golden Butterfly, Journal of Research ( Humanities), Volume LIV , Issue LIV.
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