"Docile or Not-So-Docile Women: A Foucauldian Reading of Ismat Chughtai’s “Gainda,” “Gharwali” and “Chui-Mui”"

Ismat Chughtai is one of the most celebrated South Asian women writers from the past century. Hence, most of the scholarship based on her few female characters from a select few stories largely deals with analysing the nature of female desire and sexuality. In this paper, we have extended the focus...

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Main Authors: Rishiraj Sen, Shweta Jha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of English, Bodoland University 2023-12-01
Series:Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://thetranscript.in/docile-or-not-so-docile-womena-foucauldian-reading-of-ismat-chughtais-gainda-gharwali-and-chui-mui/