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MARGINALIZED SILENCE UNDER THE OBSERVATIONS OF AYAAN HIRSI ALI AND SALMAN RUSHDIE

    1 Author(s):  ABHILASHA SINGH

Vol -  7, Issue- 12 ,         Page(s) : 26 - 36  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Can a woman’s experience spoils a man’s career; can a woman’s voice, a woman’s sense of self-worth and injustice, challenge a structure of dominance by men. The images of women as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs. They are presented as romantic victims, witches, lustrous, adulterous and vigorous. As we see in fairy tales like Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty in the Beast, etc. In all these tales, there is always a man or a prince to save a woman from evil power. On the other side, there are step mothers of Cinderella and Snow White, who always try to harm them. So, what we are trying to convey is that the women represent either as witchery or as a pure/innocent. Usually, no another way is used to represent women in the stories. But, here we have two eminent writers like Salman Rushdie and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, being brought up among women, such as sisters, cousins, grandmothers and aunts; they claim that they have a great influence on their works. The women in their works have shown to resist the conventional expectations that are placed upon them by a patriarchal system. They emerge as a free spirit one who does not want to bind in any fixed frame. Hirsi Ali’s knowledge of the realities of Islam is rooted in her own traumatic experiences. At a very early age, her home country Somalia, she was subjected to female genital mutilation and forced marriage. We shed light on the perspectives from which we argue that Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Salman Rushdie exalt the many strides taken by women, their performance centres on how power is attained by the powerless female protagonists through self-sacrifice, tolerance and an indomitable spirit. They learned to observe ‘the instructions, quarrels, laughter and ambitions of these women, these renowned writers attempt to analyse the silence of marginal women that is unheard.

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