Post-structuralist feminist study of sultana’s dream by begum Rokaya
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2020
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UMT, Lahore
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This paper aims to analyze a short fiction story Sultana’s Dream by Begum Rokeya through the lens of Post- Structuralist Feminist Theories in which critics tend to raise a question that whether the gender is innate or God-given or it has been socially constructed and therefore is mutable which can be put into play and can be deconstructed. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain is an Asian writer who belonged to India and aimed to embrace feminism in her writings. She is well-known for her feminist utopian fiction and has also put forwarded the need for a woman's identity by using a distinctive technique like utopian fiction. This qualitative research intends to scrutinize the aforementioned writing under the lens of Helen Cixuous's idea of L'ectriture Feminine which means a woman writing for women. It discusses how when a woman writes about herself she reverses the system of binary oppositions like men/women, in which the term on the right side is always suppressed and the term on the left side is always privileged. It has been long believed by feminists that men in this world consider women as mere extensions to themselves. For a long time, women have been suppressed and kept away from social, economic, and political centers of power. With the help of Cixous' theory, it will also be analyzed how Sultana's character breaks the binary oppositions by displacing women from the right side of the dichotomy to the left, as Begum Rokeya breaks the hierarchy of writing with the help of L’ectriture Feminine as well.