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.
The Influence of Karl Marx’s Ecological Insights in the Works of Selected Literary Writers
A significant issue facing humanity now is the ecological disaster as a result of the transformation of natural processes into splintered, unchanging mechanisms designed for individual accumulation. Therefore, we can say that the issue of nature is an issue to the capital. The significant developments in ecosocialist theory cast light upon the ongoing prominence of Marx's metabolic as well as materialist approach to understanding the colloquial swap concerning nature and humans which additionally include the ecological rifts and their creation inside ecosystems. This paper explores the influence of Marx's views on ecological crisis due to capitalism in the literary works of British, American, and Indian poets. The findings of the study indicate Marx's influence on these writers. Besides, this influence of Marx on the literary circle also reflects Marx's ideas as universal and relevant to all fields of all ages.
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Ecological Disaster, Karl Marx, English, American, Indian, Poets, Writers
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(1) Saman Salah
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
(2) Khair- Un-Nisa Azeem
Mphil Scholar, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
(3) Durdana Rafique
Assistant professor, Department of English, University of Turbat Balochistan, Balochistan, Pakistan.