Cracking India: ‘A Gendered Subaltern Narrative’
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 2
Abstract
Cracking India‟ by Bapsi Sidhwa is a semi – autobiographical novel which can best be analysed and interpreted as a „gendered subaltern narrative‟. Eight year old „Lenny‟- a Parsee who grew up in Lahore and suffered from polio is the narrator who unfolds how her community in general and women in particular suffered at the hands of the majority during the partition of India and Pakistan. Besides Partition crisis, the novel also deals with the Parsee milieu, their minority status, issue of child – marriage, women‟s problems and patterns of migration. An attempt has been made in the present paper to show how Sidhwa has successfully portrayed the trauma of woman who belongs to „minority community‟ and how her status as „minority within a minority‟ leads to her double oppression due to her gender and religion at the hands of the so – called „superior‟ oppressors.
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Dr. Poorva Bhonde
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