A POSTMODERN STUDY OF GENDER ISSUES IN FAWZIA AFZAL KHAN’S MEMOIR

Abstract

The purpose of the present research is to explore the ways the postmodern feminist subversive text i.e. Afzal Khan’s memoire Lahore with Love: Growing up with Girlfriends Pakistani Style dismantles the gender issues in herstories of Pakistan. The research is qualitative in nature. Moreover, Mills, three-part-model has been drawn on as a research tool as it aims to rectify the way gender is represented in the phallocentric texts into an alternative matriarchal language. The textual analysis suggests that male centric hegemonic historical narratives can be deconstructed through alternative female centric narratives. Afzal Khan interweaves the female centric worldview in her narrative with the postcolonial perspective, by suggesting and showing that female postcolonial creative writers are able to articulate feminine experiences with equal ease and authority as do men in representing their masculine experiences.