The Diachronic Evolution of Female Corporeality in Postmodern Pakistani Fiction
| dc.contributor.author | Shamsa Malik | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-31T15:24:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-31T15:24:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study explores the crisis of female corporeality and how the self sublimates the resultant pain into psychological empowerment. The research attempts to excavate different channels through which the Pakistani woman attains gradual freedom from the patriarchal standards of the Pakistani society. She undergoes a trajectory of physical sufferings and psychological traumas which she sublimates and transforms into an empowering energy. By focusing on the study of body the research utilizes the broader framework of postcolonial feminist literary criticism to trace the diachronic evolution of these women and concludes that Pakistani women are gradually moving towards emancipation. The female characters in the three primary sources of this research The Pakistani Bride (1990) by Bapsi Sidhwa, Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) by Nadeem Aslam, and Karachi You’re Killing Me! (2014) by Saba Imtiaz appear to be the oppressed and marginalized entities that could not master their choices or muster up courage to fight for the fulfillment of their desires. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/4250 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | UMT, Lahore | |
| dc.title | The Diachronic Evolution of Female Corporeality in Postmodern Pakistani Fiction | |
| dc.type | Thesis |
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