http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).42
10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).42
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White Womans Burden: A Critique of White Womens Portrayal in Selected Postcolonial Fiction
Image of white women occur frequently in postcolonial writings. This paper attempts to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the white womens portrayals in the selected Pakistani postcolonial fiction to determine the comparative discrepancy between the assumptions and reality about the role of white women in the colonies. The white women being the part of civilizing mission of the white man, are seen with a particular light by the indigenous people because in comparison to the white man, white womes role has been that of a benevolent mother. This problematizes the situation and hence calls for the investigation into the portrayals and the roles of the white women as projected by the indigenous writers. The study delimits to Forster, Sidhwa, and Hamid and analyses the selected chunks of the text under the lens of theoretical frame work proposed by Jayawardena within the postcolonial context.
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White Women, Postcolonial fiction, Indigenous writers, Civilizing mission, portrayals of white women.
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(1) Zia Ahmed Dogar
Professor,Department of English,Government Emerson College Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Akbar Sajid
Language Instructor,Department of English, Jazan University, SaudiArabia.
(3) Muhammad Riaz Khan
Language Instructor, Department of English, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
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APA : Dogar, Z. A., Sajid, A., & Khan, M. R. (2019). White Womans Burden: A Critique of White Womens Portrayal in Selected Postcolonial Fiction. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(III), 326-331. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).42
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CHICAGO : Dogar, Zia Ahmed, Akbar Sajid, and Muhammad Riaz Khan. 2019. "White Womans Burden: A Critique of White Womens Portrayal in Selected Postcolonial Fiction." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (III): 326-331 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).42
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HARVARD : DOGAR, Z. A., SAJID, A. & KHAN, M. R. 2019. White Womans Burden: A Critique of White Womens Portrayal in Selected Postcolonial Fiction. Global Social Sciences Review, IV, 326-331.
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MHRA : Dogar, Zia Ahmed, Akbar Sajid, and Muhammad Riaz Khan. 2019. "White Womans Burden: A Critique of White Womens Portrayal in Selected Postcolonial Fiction." Global Social Sciences Review, IV: 326-331
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MLA : Dogar, Zia Ahmed, Akbar Sajid, and Muhammad Riaz Khan. "White Womans Burden: A Critique of White Womens Portrayal in Selected Postcolonial Fiction." Global Social Sciences Review, IV.III (2019): 326-331 Print.
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OXFORD : Dogar, Zia Ahmed, Sajid, Akbar, and Khan, Muhammad Riaz (2019), "White Womans Burden: A Critique of White Womens Portrayal in Selected Postcolonial Fiction", Global Social Sciences Review, IV (III), 326-331
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TURABIAN : Dogar, Zia Ahmed, Akbar Sajid, and Muhammad Riaz Khan. "White Womans Burden: A Critique of White Womens Portrayal in Selected Postcolonial Fiction." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. III (2019): 326-331. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).42