LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:6 June 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Image of the Woman Paralleled With the Decline of Delhi

Sadia Riaz, M.Phil.
Farhan Ebadat Yar Khan Ph.D.


Abstract

This paper critically analyzes and traces the parallel images that contribute in establishing Ahmed Ali as both a feminist writer who brings out the voice of the suppressed female as well as a writer who laments the change that the Delhi city and the people of India were wrought. In tracing this decline, Ahmed Ali’s feminist stance is also revealed, where he likens the beauty of the Delhi city with the beauty of a woman. It is thus, that the image of the woman: the courtesan as well as the domestic woman reign important in the novel. The gradual decline of the position of women, demonstrated in the marriages that take place and in their physical ailments and gradual deaths, is paralleled with the historical changes that take place in this city.

Key Words: Feminism, Hybridity, Subalterns, Marginalization.

1. Introduction

‘Delhi was once a paradise,
Such peace had abided here;
But they have ravished its name and pride,
Remain now only ruins and care’
-Bahadur Shah (quoted by Ahmed Ali in the epigraph of ‘Twilight in Delhi’)

Salman Rushdie’s axiom, “the Empire writes back to the centre” gets currency from Ashcroft’s, Griffiths’s, Tiffin’s celebrated book titled the same, The Empire Writes Back, which denotes to the process of probing and re-presenting the colonial discourse which characterises postcolonial writings (McLeod, 28). The postcolonial core of Twilight in Delhi manifests most in its thematic concerns. A postcolonial discourse studies the dynamics of identity, politics, race, power, subordination and dominance, landlessness, displacement or dislocation of culture, and hybridization.

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Sadia Riaz, M.Phil.
University of Management and Technology
Lahore, Pakistan
sadisehole@gmail.com

Farhan Ebadat Yar Khan, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Higher Education Department
Government of Punjab
Lahore Pakistan
dr.farhanebadatyarkhan@gmail.com

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