Volume III Special Issue III March 2023

Name of Author : Dr. S R Chaitra

Title of the paper : Representation of Patriarchal Culture in Khushwant Singhs Train to Pakistan

Abstract: Khushwant Singhs Train to Pakistan concentrates on the ethnoscape during the aftermath of Indias independence from the colonial imperialism. In the sociological construction of gender which in turn represents the national culture, the gender hegemony of masculinity determines and constructs the action and life of the female. As representation is a process of signification where feminine is in contrast to masculine in the power structure of Indian cultural society where the societal identity that is socially produced constitutes socially empowered male to occupy dominant positions and subsequently construct, marginalise, naturalise and legitimise gender roles of female as the other. The present paper intensively investigates the identity projections due to hegemonic ideologies from a feminist perspective where women are helpless, hopeless and voiceless in the patriarchal culture that rules the Indian postcolonial world and thereby suffer subjugation in all spheres of life.

Keywords : Patriarchy, Culture, Women, Subjugation, Partition

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Page Number : 5-6