http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-II).36
10.31703/gssr.2020(V-II).36
Published : Jun 2
The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan
The awakening has spoken to women's issues across time in many corners of the world regardless of caste, faith, nationality. Being a semi-autobiographical American-Novel, The Awakening was a catharsis against the late-19th-century Victorian constraints on Southern American women. The text challenged the hold of Victorian shackles on women's social, personal, marital, and sexual rights. Although the text had poor critical reception in its own time, it was reaccredited in the 1950s. Since then, the novel has kept on enlightening its readers through its powerful female-characters across times and cultures. This study revisits how the text reflected women's individualism; how readers responded to it, and how it has contributed a change to women's position. The analogy also signifies the degree to which the study could encourage the suppressed women's voice in Pakistan against—social, personal, marital, sexual —injustices that are done to them under cultural shackles, religious romanticizing, and androcentric norms.
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The Awakening; feminism; women; late 19th-century; patriarchy; Pakistan; USA
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(1) Imran Ali
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU), Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Uzma Imtiaz
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU), Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Zainab Akram
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University, Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan.
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APA : Ali, I., Imtiaz, U., & Akram, Z. (2020). The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review, V(II), 382-393. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-II).36
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CHICAGO : Ali, Imran, Uzma Imtiaz, and Zainab Akram. 2020. "The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, V (II): 382-393 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2020(V-II).36
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HARVARD : ALI, I., IMTIAZ, U. & AKRAM, Z. 2020. The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review, V, 382-393.
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MHRA : Ali, Imran, Uzma Imtiaz, and Zainab Akram. 2020. "The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, V: 382-393
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MLA : Ali, Imran, Uzma Imtiaz, and Zainab Akram. "The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, V.II (2020): 382-393 Print.
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OXFORD : Ali, Imran, Imtiaz, Uzma, and Akram, Zainab (2020), "The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan", Global Social Sciences Review, V (II), 382-393
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TURABIAN : Ali, Imran, Uzma Imtiaz, and Zainab Akram. "The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review V, no. II (2020): 382-393. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-II).36