2022

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Ophelia's projected identities and intersectional oppression in hamlet
(UMT, Lahore, 2022) Abeer Riaz
This research is about Ophelia’s character in the light of an analytical framework named Intersectionality, coined by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989 under the umbrella term of the fourth wave of feminism. This research seeks to ignite a discursive discussion about the interlinking personalities of an individual and the discrimination it accumulates that cannot be confined to a conventional trajectory of oppression. From an intersectional point of view, gender is not a size that fits all; it has diversity not only in the identities a person carries but also in the discrimination he or she faces. After discussing various institutionalized thoughts about the gender binary in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this research asserts that when you take a more intersectional approach in identifying what struggles an individual goes through because of distinctive characteristics and personalities, it gives birth to different degrees of suppression. The current study also mobilizes the perspective of fraternity into critically thinking and analyzing oppression besides the gender binary that usually exists.