Abstract
This research employed the feminist stylistic framework of Sara Mills in determining the difference between Kamila Shamsie’s women and men characters in her novel “Broken Verses”. The selected novel was analyzed using the model provided by Sara Mills, which aims to investigate texts at the level of word, phrase/sentence. The research identified dominant and recurring features in the novel. Women characters differ from the men in that there are more descriptions given to them which pertain to their thoughts, emotions, experiences, vulnerability towards men, and their physical characteristics. Men are described according to their physical strength, personalities, attitudes, which dominate women. Overall, the research shows that at these levels of analysis, the novel consistently foregrounds the female consciousness and experience. At the same time, the novel also magnifies the pervading dominance of men over women in many circumstances.
Highlights
Kamila Shamsie, a Pakistani female writer, who has rooted in a patriarchal culture in which women are silenced and marginalized to the domestic sphere and having a liberal and modern exposure through a foreign education, represents women in her fiction (Sofia Hussain, 2011)
The present study focuses on feminist analysis of the novel “Broken Verses” and the importance of this study lies in its attempt to provide a useful addition to the language research made on the works of Kamila Shamsie
Feminist stylistics, which has its roots both in feminism and stylistics, “has suggested ways in which those concerned with the representation of gender relations might draw on linguistic and language analysis to develop a set of tools which could expose the workings of gender at a range of different levels in texts” (Mills, 1995, p. 198)
Summary
Kamila Shamsie, a Pakistani female writer, who has rooted in a patriarchal culture in which women are silenced and marginalized to the domestic sphere and having a liberal and modern exposure through a foreign education, represents women in her fiction (Sofia Hussain, 2011). Kamila Shamsie’s novel “Burnt shadows” no doubt is the feminist study where the novelist has presented the very feminine psyche of women characters in her novel. “Burnt shadows” can be called a Feminist novel. The present study focuses on feminist analysis of the novel “Broken Verses” and the importance of this study lies in its attempt to provide a useful addition to the language research made on the works of Kamila Shamsie. The primary question which this study aims to answer is: How do the women characters in “Broken Verses” by Kamila Shamsie differ from the men?. The accompanying result inquiries are likewise answered: i. How are the characters in the novel portrayed through lexical choices?.
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