LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 21:10 October 2021
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Feminist Reading of Tabish Khair’s Jihadi Jane

Thomas K. Varghese, M.A., M.S., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Prof. G. Baskaran Ph.D.


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Feminism can be considered as a political, cultural, or economic movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal protection for women. It encompasses political and sociological theories and philosophies relating with issues of gender difference. The novel Jihadi Jane written by Tabish Khair displays an active portrayal of women characters and it revolves around their experiences, their choices, and their perspectives on life. This research paper tries to analyse Jihadi Jane from a feminist perspective exploring how the characteristics of feminism are presented or reflected in the novel.

Tabish Khair is an Indian English poet, novelist, and columnist. Presently, he teaches in the Department of English, University of Aarhus in Denmark. He was born and educated mostly in Bihar, India. He worked as a journalist in Times of India. He is the author of various books, including poetry collections, studies, and novels, His novels have been shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK), the Crossword Prize (India), the Man Asian Literary Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

As stated by Sarah Gamble in The Routledge Companion To Feminism And Post feminism,

“Feminism is the belief that women are treated inequitably within a society which is organised to prioritise male viewpoints and concerns. Within this patriarchal paradigm, women become everything men are not: where men are regarded as strong, women are weak; where men are rational, they are emotional; where men are active, they are passive; and so on. Under this rationale, which aligns them everywhere with negativity, women are denied equal access to the world of public concerns as well as of cultural representation. Put simply, feminism seeks to change this situation.”

Feminist theory emerged from various feminist movements tracing the history of feminism which can be divided into three waves as detailed by Maggie Humm and Rebecca Walker.

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Thomas K. Varghese, M.A., M.S.
Assistant Professor, Department of English
The American College, Madurai &
Ph.D. Research Scholar, SEFL, Gandhigram Rural Institute
thomaskodiat@gmail.com

Prof. G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
Professor & Dean
School of English & Foreign Languages
Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed University)
Gandhigram 624 302
Dindigul District
Tamilnadu, India
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