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An Exploration of Postcolonial-Feminist Elements in William Dalrymple’s White Mughals
Abstract
This article is an attempt to analyze and dissect White Mughal (2002) from Postcolonial feminist perspective which is a third-world feminism and portrays the way how women of colonized countries suffer from double colonization: native patriarchies and imperial ideology. While Western feminism focuses on gender discrimination, postcolonial feminism tries to broaden the analysis of the intersection of gender and multicultural identity formation. The present article is based on the conviction that William Dalrymple’s White Mughals possesses the characteristics to be interpreted from the postcolonial feminism vantage point. Through this study, the researcher has analyzed the issues of gender discrimination and woman as commodity while discussing the basic themes of the novel. Descriptive in nature, the study employed mixed method approach to answer the questions pertaining to women representation in post colonial fiction. Data was analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively at two levels namely i) lexical and ii) grammatical. The study revealed that women undergo double colonization and other post colonial features were also identified in the analysis.
Authors
Saman Nasir
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Women University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan
Muhammad Ajmal
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Marya Sarwar
Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Okara, Punjab, Pakistan
