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EMPOWERED AT THE MARGINS: WOMEN IN MANTO’S STORIES

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Saadat Hasan Manto’s short-stories are characterized by his unapologetic brave voice, and in that they are empowering. They are populated by women characters, often sex-workers who despite their victimization and marginalization strive to make a living and try and make sense of their scattered realities. However, are these women from his stories only helpless victims, as we have come to see them in popular opinion, or do they also, at times as a result of their marginalization, exercise an agency? Research on his short-stories has had as its centre of focus their importance as partition narratives within the domains of sex, sexuality and gendered violence. Although there have been extensive feminist readings of his works, they have only managed to see the female in his works as a permanent victim, with no agency or influence whatsoever. Contrary to these opinions, some of his characters do exercise an agency to influence the lives of others or at times to create a self-identity, as in ‘Mozail’ or ‘A woman’s life’. This paper analyses these two short-stories from kingdom’s End, a collection of English translated short stories,to support the observation made above. Although these readings are done through the lens of feminism, they are different from those done before because here these short-stories are looked at as narratives where the characters are not limited to their status as victims but also become agents in their own right. This paper might enable us to read Manto through a new perspective, one that opens us up to the subversive attitudes his characters embody and their empowerment as a result of being situated on the fringes of the victimizing centres.

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Manto, Mozail, A woman’s life, Kingdom’s end, feminism

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"EMPOWERED AT THE MARGINS: WOMEN IN MANTO’S STORIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.240-246, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006042.pdf

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"EMPOWERED AT THE MARGINS: WOMEN IN MANTO’S STORIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp240-246, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006042.pdf

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Published Paper ID: JETIRC006042
Registration ID: 183609
Published In: Volume 5 | Issue 6 | Year June-2018
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Page No: 240-246
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Area: Engineering
ISSN Number: 2349-5162
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