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FEMINIST DISCOURSES AND MULTIPLE IDENTITIES A POSTCOLONIAL REPRESENTATION OF WOMAN IN HYDERS RIVER OF FIRE

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).37      10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).37      Published : Sep 2018

Feminist Discourses and Multiple Identities: A Postcolonial Representation of Woman in Hyder's River of Fire

Abstract

    This research paper foregrounds the postcolonial representation of women in Hyder's River of Fire. The novel covers a large span of history. In the entire novel, the female writer presents a lot of women in the backdrop of socio-political and historical backdrop. The western totalizing and Universalist discourses of feminism do not explain well the scope of representation of women in this novel. Even third-world feminism does not suffice here. The research shows that the novelist consciously writes back the colonial and postcolonial feminist representation of women. The analysis highlights that the question of marginalization and subjugation must be seen with multiple factors such as history, society, culture and class. The novel presents multiple identities of women in the historical flux of more than two thousand years.

    Feminist Discourse, Multiple Identities, Postcolonial Feminism, Third World Feminism, Western Feminism

    (1) Kanwal Zahra
    Assistant Professor, Centre for Languages and Translation Studies, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Ahmad Nadeem
    Assistant Professor, Government Ambala Muslim College Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
    (3) Aisha Jadoon
    Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Zahra, K., Nadeem, A., & Jadoon, A. (2018). Feminist Discourses and Multiple Identities: A Postcolonial Representation of Woman in Hyder's River of Fire. Global Social Sciences Review, III(III), 629 - 643. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).37

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Zahra, Kanwal, Ahmad Nadeem, and Aisha Jadoon. 2018. "Feminist Discourses and Multiple Identities: A Postcolonial Representation of Woman in Hyder's River of Fire." Global Social Sciences Review, III (III): 629 - 643 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).37

HARVARD

    HARVARD : ZAHRA, K., NADEEM, A. & JADOON, A. 2018. Feminist Discourses and Multiple Identities: A Postcolonial Representation of Woman in Hyder's River of Fire. Global Social Sciences Review, III, 629 - 643.

MHRA

    MHRA : Zahra, Kanwal, Ahmad Nadeem, and Aisha Jadoon. 2018. "Feminist Discourses and Multiple Identities: A Postcolonial Representation of Woman in Hyder's River of Fire." Global Social Sciences Review, III: 629 - 643

MLA

    MLA : Zahra, Kanwal, Ahmad Nadeem, and Aisha Jadoon. "Feminist Discourses and Multiple Identities: A Postcolonial Representation of Woman in Hyder's River of Fire." Global Social Sciences Review, III.III (2018): 629 - 643 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Zahra, Kanwal, Nadeem, Ahmad, and Jadoon, Aisha (2018), "Feminist Discourses and Multiple Identities: A Postcolonial Representation of Woman in Hyder's River of Fire", Global Social Sciences Review, III (III), 629 - 643

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Zahra, Kanwal, Ahmad Nadeem, and Aisha Jadoon. "Feminist Discourses and Multiple Identities: A Postcolonial Representation of Woman in Hyder's River of Fire." Global Social Sciences Review III, no. III (2018): 629 - 643. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).37