Academic Discourse
Year : 2012, Volume : 1, Issue : 2
First page : ( 48) Last page : ( 54)
Print ISSN : 2278-3296. Online ISSN : 2349-4441.

Religion and Hierarchical Male-Female Relationships in the Fiction of Taslima Nasreen

Dr. Sharma Sneh Lata

Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, J.V.M.G.R.R. (P.G.) College, Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India

Online published on 18 June, 2014.

Abstract

In this paper I endeavour to deal with man-woman relationship and the role of religion played in its hierarchization. For this I make a special reference to the works of Taslima Nasreen who is a significant signature in the literature of the Muslim world. Religion has placed woman on a lower position in man-woman relationship on biological, sexual and economic grounds thereby constructing a politically incorrect social structure. Taslima Nasreen's is a voice of protest, and the gist and substance of her writingsfictional and non-fictionalis a struggle for women's emancipation. She is persistent in her censure of religious texts which are quoted and referred to for the legitimization of the subjugation of woman on the part of men all over the world even today. Not content with painting her victimized women in gloomy shades, she makes them shriek and shout against the tyranny of the patriarchal world thus trying to give it a deathblow.

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