Sep 2026· Genetics and Molecular Research· 0 citations· 1 references
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Patriarchy is a system created with and historical background in which men hold primary power both in the family and public domain. This system paves way to women’s oppression and subjugation. In the family the father figure holds authority over women, girl children and powerless men. Within this patriarchal setup women have been restricted with certain exclusive norms and conditions. Jaishree Misra’s Ancient Promises explores the cultural and psychological impacts of postcolonial concerns in literature written in English in India. She voices out for woman’s reclaiming basic identities and acknowledgements from the society where she lives in. Her protagonist in Ancient Promises resists cultural and traditional overtones and goes through the trauma of displacement and power structures. Janu the female protagonist in the novel blends with two cultures and creates a new a complex postcolonial identity. Through the theme and the perfect art of characterization she extra-ordinarily gives her voice to the subaltern-the marginalized women underestimated by primordial norms of patriarchy.
Plenty has been written about how Dickens divided his woman characters into two primary types—the angel in the house and the fallen woman—and how this binary categorization produces a lack of female agency in Dickens’s works due to the predictable fates these women meet: marriage and domestic bliss for the angel in t...
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This article offers a postcolonial feminist reading of Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero, examining the interconnected experiences of patriarchal abandonment, gendered violence, economic vulnerability, cultural expectation, and women’s survival. Although existing scholarship has examined the novel through...
Kedze Marcevinus Akah· International journal of res...· 0 citations
The aim is to study the sociocultural sufferings and the dilemma of Anita Nair's protagonists who find themselves tattered between social conventions and traditions and their inordinate urge to transgress these boundaries and fulfill their desires. In The Better Man (2000) Nair talks about quest for identity and self r...
Shalini Sharma· International Journal For Mu...· 0 citations
Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (2014) presents an insight into the relationships between gender, patriarchy, and the perception of women’s selfhood in Afghan society. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the protagonist Rahima and her great-great-grandmother Shekiba experience the restrictions of...
S. S. Kumar, S. Ahamed· Bodhi international journal...· 0 citations
Patriarchy in Nepal continues to shape women’s lives through deeply rooted cultural practices that normalize suffering, silence, and exclusion. Despite constitutional guarantees of equality, women, particularly in rural areas, face multiple forms of gender-based violence, including child marriage, ritualized widowhood,...
This paper uses as a starting point Annis Pratt’s concept that “the novel per-
forms the same role in women’s lives as do the Eleusinian, dying-god, and witchcraft rituals,”
providing the reader with “the potential for personal transformation” through its archetypal pat-
terns. Specifically, it explores three contempor...
M. Hristova· Balkanistic Forum· 0 citations
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