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Cancel anytime. Share this document Share or Embed Document Sharing Options Share on Facebook, opens a new window Share on Twitter, opens a new window Share on LinkedIn, opens a new window Share with Email, opens mail client Copy Text Related Interests Partition Of India Skip section Trending Neverwhere: A Novel Neil Gaiman Manifest Your Destiny Wayne W.Quick navigation Home Books Audiobooks Documents, active Collapse section Rate Useful 60 60 found this document useful, Mark this document as useful Not useful 40 40 found this document not useful, Mark this document as not useful Collapse section Share Share on Facebook, opens a new window Facebook Share on Twitter, opens a new window Twitter Share on LinkedIn, opens a new window LinkedIn Copy Link to clipboard Copy Link Share with Email, opens mail client Email.The aim of the present study is to show the womens journey to gain power in Bapsi Sidhwas novel Ice-Candy Man.This will be done by showing their dual representation in the novel in the light of Feminist Theory.
The study will first show how the women are victims of patriarchal oppression, subjugation, marginalization and sexual exploitation in the novel, and then it will be described that how they are not entirely the victim. Ice Candy Man For Free Public FullKeywords: Patriarchy; Female Suppression; Marginalization; Feminism; Sexual Exploitation; Power; Strength; Identity Discover the worlds research 20 million members 135 million publications 700k research projects Join for free Public Full-text 1 Content uploaded by Mahin Wahla Author content All content in this area was uploaded by Mahin Wahla on Jun 29, 2018 Content may be subject to copyright. The stud y will first show how the women are victims of patr iarchal oppression, subjugation, marginalization an d sexual exploitation in the novel, and then it will be described that how they are not entirely victim. This will be accomplished by showing their strength to come out of that situation of victimization to gain power and assert their i ndependent identity. Key words- Patriarchy; Female Suppression; Marginalization; Fe minism; Sexual Exploitation; Power; Strength; Identity 1. INTRODUCTION Bapsi Sidhwa was bo rn on 11th August, 1938 in Karachi. She belongs to the Parsi community, Zoroasterian, a distinctive minority who left Iran for South Asia to avoid the religious persecution. She was educated at home till the age of 15 by an Anglo-Indian lady because she became a polio victim at the age of 2. Firstly at the age of 19 with a B ombay businessman, but got divorced. Now she is an active social worker with great concern for the women around. Sidhwa started writing in the 1970s when she was inspired by the story of a young girl who ran away from home and was killed by her husband in the Hindukush Mountains. This story was published in the form of her second novel: The Bride. Her notable novels include: The Crow Eaters (1978), wh ich is t he story about the life and fortunes of Parsi Junglewalla family in British India; The Pakistan i Bride (1983), the story of a Parsi girl ad opted by a Pathan during partition; An American Brat (19 93), the stor y about the conflicts of value systems and cultures on perso nal and social level; and I ce-Candy Man (1988), w hich is a story about the change in the lives of people before and after the partition. She has also w on numerous awards for her novels: The Patras Bokhari Award for The Bride in 1985; The Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 1991; and she has also won the German Literaturepreis award for Ice -Candy Man. In Ice Can dy Man, she describes about the fate of the people in Lahore and Partition o f India through the eyes of a precocious 8 years old handicapped Parsi girl, Lenny. RESEARCH QUESTIONS The present study will be focused on trying to find the answers of the following questions: 1. How the women in Ice Candy Man have been dually represented 2. In what wa ys women in the respective novel are the victims of patriarchal oppression 3. How the women characters show their female agency to gain power in Ice-Candy Ma n 3. LITERATURE REVIEW Ice-Candy Man has drawn the atte ntion of many researchers and a lot of work has been d one on it. Different researchers have come up with different theme s and ideas.
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