Identity and Representation of Women by a Woman Writer: an Analytical Study of Niaz Zaman’s The Dance and Other Stories
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper attempts to incite the issues of identity, representation and double colonization in the short stories of Niaz Zaman, an anasporic woman fiction writer in English of Bangladesh, where the focus will also be on the perspective of a woman writer whose characters are also women and on how a woman is looking and presenting other women since that shows and also goes to the very core of the crisis women face in this post colonial era. Bela‟s dance and sexual intercourse with the mysterious „Suraj‟ in “The Dance” unwraps the possibility of a girl‟s freedom of choice over getting and accepting pleasure of both mind and body; Nargis‟s escape from the ties of love and patriarchy only to free herself and let herself be what she wants in “A Study in Black and White” unravels the new beginning for the woman writers and artists as the women have to cross the border of struggles doubly; Bhabi‟s stand against or for the racial attitude towards girls‟ skin in terms of marriage in “Ali‟s Bride” gives a new arena of discussion on the outlook of society towards men (no matter normal or abnormal) and their needs and the position of the poor ugly girls and the possibility and impossibility of sisterhood. How much those mentioned and unmentioned characters from different stories of the book The Dance and Other Stories of Niaz Zaman emanate new hopes and new future of endless possibilities in both literature and in patriarchic society for women is also discussed about in this paper.
Authors and Affiliations
Mahia Khanam Prima, Md. Maruf Hasan, Md. Saber -E- Montaha
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