The Subaltern Cannot Speak: A Social, Political and Cultural Critique of Javeri’s Nobody Killed Her
Abstract
The current research seeks to explore the marginalized status of women in the context of Pakistan with reference to Sabyn Javeri’s novel Nobody Killed Her. Sabyn Javeri, an emergent English fiction writer, in her debut novel attempts to substantiate women’s suffering that cut across generations and crosses the walls of caste and class. The current research explores her novel as a representative voice of the subaltern women and it vividly articulates its focus on the evidence from the text to trace that there is no room for this marginalized section to be heard even if she/they attempt(s) to speak. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s theoretical concept of subaltern has been applied to the evaluation of the selected text. Spivak examines the colonial hegemonic influence on once colonized countries especially with reference to the double marginalization of women. This study is descriptive and qualitative while close reading is used as a research method.
Authors
Dr. Ayesha Ashraf
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Sardar Ahmad Farooq
Lecturer, Department of English, Government Postgraduate College Mansehra, KP, Pakistan
Nafees Parvez
M. Phil. Scholar, Department of English, Govt. College University Faisalabad Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Domination, Gayatri Spivak. Marginalization, Pakistani English Fiction, Post-Colonial, Subaltern