Abstract
This study aims to bring attention to the homophobia of the famous female writer Ismat Chughtai with the help of her infamous short story ‘Lihaaf’ published in the pre-independent India. The short story ‘Lihaaf’ is a story of a homosexual woman named Begum Jan and her homosexual husband Nawab Saheb. Through this study, we are trying to bring the homophobic depiction of characters by the writer Ismat Chughtai in the short story ‘Lihaaf’, which has been ignored for a long time.
Highlights
Ismat Chughtai garnered extra attention in the world of writing and literature in colonial India by the publication of short story Lihaaf in the literary journal Adab-e-Lateef
The story was about Begum Jan, a newly married woman, who was ignored by her husband, who is interested in young boys
Charges of obscenity were charged on Ismat Chughtai, which caused a lot of turmoil in her personal as well as professional life
Summary
Ismat Chughtai garnered extra attention in the world of writing and literature in colonial India by the publication of short story Lihaaf in the literary journal Adab-e-Lateef. The story was about Begum Jan, a newly married woman, who was ignored by her husband, who is interested in young boys. Because of her physical abandonment, she explores new methods of satisfying herself. In my opinion, when we pay close attention to her short story Lihaaf, we can say that she was a homophobic person This opinion is based on two things; firstly, in between the story, we can find that Ismat's opinions were hovering over the narrator's view and understanding towards homosexual people, and secondly, she portrayed the characters in a stereotypical and cliched manner many people oppose this opinion
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