Memory, Identity, Patriarchy: Projecting a Past in the Memoirs of Sara Suleri and Michael Ondaatje

Ray, Sangeeta

doi:10.1353/mfs.0.1093

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“…11-12) arguing that postcolonialism as cultural encounters or the hybridization in the postcolonial context (Ashcroft, 1989: p. 36) ignores the distinction of postcolonial hierarchies regarding gender, class, or location (p. 178). Sangeeta Ray (1993) agrees with Loomba when he exposes how the imbalanced hierarchies of power keep proliferating "in the current geopolitical arena" (p. 38). Edward Said (1978) and tags postcolonialism with the hierarchical standards wherein the Western countries, representative of colonizers, are exceedingly valued whereas the colonized cultures and their people are assumed as essentially inferior.…”

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confidence: 78%

Postcolonial Merger/Dissolution of Identities in In-Between Spaces: A Diaspora Study of Ondaatje�s The English Patient

Shafiq

Aqeel

Sumaira

2018

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The epistemological shift from colonialism to postcolonialism refashioned the colonial conceptualization of gender, race, geopolitical locale and sexual orientation to focus on those processes theorized by Homi K. Bhabha as 'in-between spaces'. With the delimitation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992), this research explores how these 'in-between spaces' led colonialism and its subjects to the postcolonial / post-World War II milieu. The colonizers were not psychologically resilient enough to survive the hybrid 'in-between space' that dismantled the binary of the self and the other. The post-colonial subject, like the colonial subject, is a collage, not stable or autonomous, because it exists in a hybrid space of the enunciation of two cultures which cannot sustain its independent identity: in The English Patient, the diaspora located at the cultural boundaries of the Europeans and their home countries merges and dissolves into the in-between spaces acquainted with their anxiety and passion of nationhood and the nationlessness.

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Postcolonial Merger/Dissolution of Identities in In-Between Spaces: A Diaspora Study of Ondaatje�s The English Patient

Shafiq

Aqeel

Sumaira

2018

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“…But this is only one dimension of the work, of course. Ray's (1993) observation rightly sees it balanced between personal and political: "Suleri's memoir constantly imbricates her family in the reconstruction of the nation of Pakistan so that the gap between the micro-political and the macro-political is continuously collapsed" (p. 49).…”

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Women, History And Faith: Suleri's Critique Of Pakistan's National Culture In Meatless Days And Boys Will Be Boys

Murtaza

Hayat

Hashmi

2020

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Sara Suleri is divided between her fascination for her father's strong character and her repulsion for the consequent effect on woman's space in family life, connoting a critique of Pakistani patriarchal society in which women, irrespective of their social status, suffer from marginalization. Although Suleri's Boys Will Be Boys is an elegy for her father, as she announces in the sub-title of the work, she manages her tilt toward her father despite her advocacy of the woman's space miserably shrunk to domestic life in Pakistani society. Besides women's position, she questions the dominant version of history and the state's political manipulation of religion for ulterior motives. She is close to Boehmer's theorization of the elitist continuities and intimacies with a view that develops from geographically and historically multiple contexts and histories. Her role as a native intellectual is two-pronged: her view is colored by western discourse, but her status as a 'representative' Pakistani voice is also significant. This article analyzes how far Suleri's representation of women, religion and history of Pakistani society is colored by western context.

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“…can never be carved in stone but are present in so many strands of partially recuperable moments that can only be translated into a fragmented autobiography''. 41 Too much work has been done by postcolonial critics about the dangers of fetishizing indigenous knowledges for us to read this as an entirely triumphalist ending, even if Ondaatje himself may have intended it that way. This is especially true if we consider how thoroughly and conventionally ''researched'' the novel is.…”

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Archive of Bones: Anil’s Ghost and the Ends of History

Burton

2003

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Memory, Identity, Patriarchy: Projecting a Past in the Memoirs of Sara Suleri and Michael Ondaatje

Cited by 16 publications

References 5 publications

Postcolonial Merger/Dissolution of Identities in In-Between Spaces: A Diaspora Study of Ondaatje�s The English Patient

Postcolonial Merger/Dissolution of Identities in In-Between Spaces: A Diaspora Study of Ondaatje�s The English Patient

Women, History And Faith: Suleri's Critique Of Pakistan's National Culture In Meatless Days And Boys Will Be Boys

Archive of Bones: Anil’s Ghost and the Ends of History

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