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Volume : II, Issue : XII, January - 2013

THE POST-COLONIAL WOMAN IN TASLIMA NASRIN'S 'LAJJA' (SHAME)

ASHALATA RAMAN

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

Taslima Nasrin a contemporary woman novelist, born and brought up in Bangladesh, vocationally trained to be a doctor, presents the agony of the post colonial citizens of BanglaDesh. Their quest for self-identity is the pivotal point in her novel 'Lajja' - Shame. The post colonial woman belonging to the minorities in Bangladesh is epitomized in Kironmoyee. She is often seen which a still posture "eyes filled with plaintive entreaty. "Let us live, let us go away." But her own desire has to be sacrificed because of her loyalty to her husband. When she was rooted out of the ancestral home along with the other members of her family. She found it hard to adjust to her new surroundings and would often wake up crying at night as "She remembered the beloved home she had left behind. She would wonder if the little scaffold she had made for the bean plant was still there. She would remember how the guavas in their garden were really the best in town, and she hoped that the green coconut trees were still being taken care of" (p. 20).

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ASHALATA RAMAN, (2013). THE POST-COLONIAL WOMAN IN TASLIMA NASRIN'S 'LAJJA' (SHAME). Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. XII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1887.pdf

References :

  1. Douwe Fokkema, Elrud Ibrch, Theories in Literature in the twentieth century , orient Longman - Hyderabad - 1995
  2. Nasrin Taslima; Lajja - Shame Penguin Books. Bangladesh 1993.

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