Abstract
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The aim of the study is to analyze one of the story ‘A Gentlemanly War’ from one of Bapsi Sidhwa’s famous collection, “The Language of Love” by using the lens of postmodern literary theory, ‘deconstruction’. Deconstructive analysis includes questioning the common meaning of the text, exposing the cultural bias, to read between the lines and to look for meaning below the surface level. The study also intends to extract implicit patriarchal structures and post-colonial themes from the story. The analysis is done by taking the methodological framework of Barbara B. Stern (1996). It involves Three-Step Textual Analysis: Identification-Construction-Deconstruction. Various post-colonial and patriarchal themes including privilege of elite class, sufferings of poor after partition, trauma of war, psycho-social behaviors of people, typical mentality of society and hidden ideologies and revelations are made in this study. It directs future researchers to deconstruct other such themes in rest of the short stories of Bapsi Sidhwa. |
Keywords
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Deconstruction, Feminism, Patriarchy, Post-Colonialism |
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Volume # 2
Issue # 2
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DOI info
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DOI Number: 10.35484/ahss.2021(2-II)01
DOI Link: http://doi.org/10.35484/ahss.2021(2-II)01
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