Ismat Chughtai

Ismat Chughtai, the Urdu writer of fierce feminist sentiments, has never got the accolades that have been bestowed upon her contemporaries- especially male contemporaries. She is remembered as a controversial writer who did not hide anything in her narratives; and hence irked her contemporary society in all possible manners. I am of the opinion that it is high time to re-evaluate the works of Ismat Chughtai by foregrounding her unflinching anti-hegemonic sentiments. Chughtai was a Feminist who challenged

Ismat Chughtai’s The Crooked Line reads like a classic Bildungsroman in many ways. It is the story of a child born in an environment which is fairly hostile who grows up and is able to move away from this hostile environment on a journey of self discovery. This basic structure is, however, where the similarity ends. A Bildungsroman is a novel of development of the central protagonist from birth to a position of stability within the social sphere. This normative form functions as a basis for Ismat

Question: How has your understanding of cultural and contextual Considerations changed as a result of the oral presentations/discussions? Work Used: The Quilt – Ismat Chugati In the interactive orals we discussed about  how “Lihaaf’’ i.e. The Quilt was eye opening piece of writing in the literature by Ismat Chugtai. In the 20 th century, Ismat Chugtai was an integral part of the Progressive Writers’ Movement. She talked about women’s oppression in her writings.   While discussing about homoeroticism

The French feminist Simone de Beauvoir famously declared “one is not born but rather becomes a woman”. Beauvoir’s thesis distinguishes the two categories sex and gender and suggests that while sexuality may be natural and physical, gender is a social construct inculcated through cultural conditioning. Sex is understood as something unalterable, constant, associated with the anatomy whereas gender is the cultural meaning and the form that is ascribed to the body. Despite the fact that gender and

Prior to Chugtai, the writers of PWA focused attention on the exploitation of poor women belonging to the lower segment of Muslim society. Chughtai for the first time turned her attention to the zenana of the upper middle class families and questioned the notion of the “ ideal Muslim woman” by placing in proximity this idea against the depiction of women’s oppression and transgression in her

ADDITONAL ENGLISH C.I.A -1 Marginalization of Urdu language and its literature. By:Sayeed ur Rehaman Class: BBA(F & A) SEC: A Registration No:1412129 Urdu a language considered as a heritage and tradition predominantly among the people of India and Pakistan, a history of Urdu will give you an insight about the importance of its rich heritage, Urdu is a language which is similar to Hindi is a form of an Indian language, it was