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Various Strands of Women Experience in
Kamala Shamsie's Novel Burnt Shadows

Sami Ullah, Ghulam Ali and Muhammad Imran, Ph.D. Scholar


Abstract

Burnt Shadows, with its most significant efforts, reveal the devoted existence of women, with regard to their experiences of self exploration. Kamala Shamsie has very truly given various abilities to her female characters, to idealize the life with all its bounties and ill experiences, which shadow the conscious approach of female mentality and sacred vision. 'Burnt Shadows' is the creation of certain facts which represent the world with women associations. It’s a deliberate effort to give exploration to the sights of women world, representing the crusaders of sincere feelings and love. These affectionate feelings mould the very existence what we call 'the women part'. Kamala Shamsie has stretched the story to comprise four different worlds of human existence and experiences, just to make the world realize the role, character and significance of pure dedication, which adore women. Hiroko is a character with all the beauties, sharpness and intellectual approaches, symbolizing the capabilities of all those legends who change the course of lives of many others in surroundings. Her hope and belief in herself slice the darkness, which has enveloped her existence and associations. It’s all transformation for Hiroko Tanaka, right from her days of established intimacies with Konrad till the last days of her life in New York, where she faces the related consequence of the life of Raza Ashraf, her son.

Keywords: Kamila Shamsie, adaptation, shattered intimacies, self exploring experiences, identification, languages.

Introduction

The literature, idealizing women experiences in the practical and fictional world, owns significant values and characteristics. It’s like holding the mirror to the most mesmerizing realities of human co- existence, specially the connotation of women existence around. Kamala Shamsie has this gift to make her characters appealing. particularly the female characters, serve as her mouthpiece to convey her ideas of female existence. The magical possession of four different worlds from Hiroko, with the desperation of loss at the end, is an imitation of the life with its experiences. Hiroko Tanaka, first distinguished as a youthful school teacher in August, 1945 in Nagasaki, turns a munitions factory worker and her artist father, is sorted out as a traitor. Right from those days, when she falls in love with Konrad Weiss, till the immensity of all those questions, asked and applied to a prisoner at the Guantanamo, reveal the inner and outer experiences of this epic character. Her experiences illustrate the image which she constructed of the life in this chaotic world. The adaptation phenomena shows her longing for identification, and then the loss of that identification in itself. She accepts the very truth and realities associated and concerned with the intimacies of all those, she knew and loved. 'Burnt Shadows' truly is the world of Hiroko Tanaka, with her burnt desires , wishes and recognition of self, even the shadows of her intimacies are burnt down to test her nature of acceptance. Kamala Shamsie's category of fiction is characterized by great scope of genuineness and reliability. Her protagonist female characters emerge to be like Shamsie herself significant representation. Reasonably, her female characters in that regard are knowledgeable, cultured, liberated, unconstrained, diasporic and sophisticated like herself.

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Corresponding Author
Sami Ullah
Lecturer in English Department
Akram Khan Durani College, Bannu, Pakistan
sami.teacher81@gmail.com

Co-authors
Ghulam Ali
Department of English
Bahuddin Zakaryia University Multan, Sahiwal Campus, Pakistan
researchassociates1122@gmail.com

Muhammad Imran
Ph.D. Scholar
School of Foreign Languages
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
imranjoyia76@gmail.com

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