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Volume 16:10 October 2016
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Hegemonic Femininity: Role of Rodabai (godmother) in Bapsi Sidhwa’s
Ice Candy Man

Muhammad Imran Joyia, M.Phil. and Ammara Gull, M.Phil. Scholar


Abstract

This paper is about hegemonic feministic role in Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Ice Candy Man. Feminism is generally taken by Sidhwa regardless of its actual role in society. Women’s behavior with other women is quite surprising, and mostly marginalization and victimization of various women is due to the other women. Women are more than victims and love to victimize both males and females. According to postcolonial feminist literary criticism, women are empowered by most of the postcolonial authors. They have been given special roles in society which challenge both genders. The study of the novel Ice Candy Man highlights the fact that Bapsi Sidhwa consciously or unconsciously is a great supporter of hegemonic femininity. So it will be unjust to say that only male members are blamed to be rude and cruel with women, however the women themselves are ever more involved in this hideous act of female suppression.

Keywords: Feminism, marginalization, victimization, hegemony, suppression.

Introduction

Feminists thought that women are the most oppressed creature on this planet. They are considered marginalized, abused, physically and mentally weak and victimized by the dominant role of men of the society. In this context many writers wrote about the victimization and oppression of the women and raised voice for their due and undue rights such as Bapsi Sidhwa in her novel “Ice Candy Man”, Virginia Woolf in “A Room for One’s Own”, Henrik Ibsen in “A Doll’s House”, Florence Claxton’s “The Adventures of a Woman in Search of her Rights”, Lillie Blake’s “Are Women A Class?” and Margaret Atwood’s “Surfacing”. But in these feminist writings we can observe another very important issue which is ignored by many feminist authors and critics, that is the empowerment of women and their hegemonic role in society. This present paper will elaborate the role of feminist writers in expressing, awakening and rehabilitation of the female bodies through their fiction landmarks. It’s the reality that many feminist writers advocated the rights of the women but never talk about their duties, described their victimization but never their cruelty, explained their weakness but never acknowledge their empowerment, exaggerated their miserable condition but very often their powerful impact and influence over male bodies such as social marginalization, no proper nouns, abusive language which is even not used by male and moral discouragement and at last but not least very rarely discussed the oppression and victimization of women by other women.

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Corresponding Author:

Muhammad Imran Joyia
M.Phil. English
Bahuddin Zakaryia University Multan, Pakistan
imranjoyia76@gmail.com

Co-author:

Ammara Gull
M.Phil. Scholar in English
University of Sargoodha, Pakistan
gullhameed129@gmail.com
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