SUBVERSION OF PATRIARCHAL IDEOLOGY: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON TALAT ABBASI’S THE BEAR AND ITS TRAINER

Abstract

The current paper deals with subversion of patriarchal ideology: A feminist perspective on Talat Abbasi’s “The Bear and Its trainer” from Marxist feminist perspective. The research observed that women in third world have consistently been representing as a marginalized and oppressed entity because women have not granted most of the rights and more importantly majority of women are submissive to men because women are provided food, shelters and many other privileges which are not obtained by women themselves because of stereotypes  i.,e women is weak and unable to cope up with problems. The same has been reflected by Talat Abbasi in “The Bear and its trainer”. However, one of the position has been given by Talat Abbais through his character Dolly to resist against men and successfully presented the stance of women. The researcher used close textual analysis as a research method and Marxist feminism is a theoretical lens. The research resulted that women in the selected story have been marginalized and oppressed by women, and they are objectified throughout because of economic grounds while on the other hand strong female character resist against men and become a subject position to speak for women.