Autobiography and Tehmina Durrani
Ayesha Anwar Warsi
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Awadh University
Faizabad
One of the most important and ultimately most controversial is the autobiographical writing which has established itself against the dominant patriarchal grain, allowing for, if not insisting on, alternative interpretations, most specifically the Feminist Reading. In some ways, however, the furious intellectual labor necessitated by a history of exclusion and neglect made the new field of autobiographical writing, a reactionary discourse as much at war with itself as with competing methodologies. Such writing if precipitated Self-expression as a “cultural imperative” on the one hand it did Self-recognition as a “cultural prescription” on the …show more content…
She was ruled over by him just as the imperial power ruled over the colonized. He wanted her to remain contented and normal in her inferior position and this was rightly how he exactly operated her by exercising his rigid control upon her. Mustafa was actually a volatile character, simply insanely and irrationally possessive in a manner reminiscent of the Duke of Ferrara in Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess. Tehmina has confronted her readers with Mustafa’s previous wives which were five in number before he married Tehmina, and she became his sixth wife. After marrying Tehmina, Mustafa also developed an illicit relationship with her sister Adila. Tehmina thus addressing Mustafa, asserted publicly, “Your marriage according to the Koran was over years ago when you slept with my sister. I have been living with you in sin. The contract stood null and void long ago.” (Durrani 362). Fatima Mernissi, author of Beyond the Veil, in her book, Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World has
Ayesha Anwar Warsi
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Awadh University
Faizabad
One of the most important and ultimately most controversial is the autobiographical writing which has established itself against the dominant patriarchal grain, allowing for, if not insisting on, alternative interpretations, most specifically the Feminist Reading. In some ways, however, the furious intellectual labor necessitated by a history of exclusion and neglect made the new field of autobiographical writing, a reactionary discourse as much at war with itself as with competing methodologies. Such writing if precipitated Self-expression as a “cultural imperative” on the one hand it did Self-recognition as a “cultural prescription” on the …show more content…
She was ruled over by him just as the imperial power ruled over the colonized. He wanted her to remain contented and normal in her inferior position and this was rightly how he exactly operated her by exercising his rigid control upon her. Mustafa was actually a volatile character, simply insanely and irrationally possessive in a manner reminiscent of the Duke of Ferrara in Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess. Tehmina has confronted her readers with Mustafa’s previous wives which were five in number before he married Tehmina, and she became his sixth wife. After marrying Tehmina, Mustafa also developed an illicit relationship with her sister Adila. Tehmina thus addressing Mustafa, asserted publicly, “Your marriage according to the Koran was over years ago when you slept with my sister. I have been living with you in sin. The contract stood null and void long ago.” (Durrani 362). Fatima Mernissi, author of Beyond the Veil, in her book, Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World has