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- Title
From Skeleton to Substance: Reading Therapeutic Spaces in Amrita Pritam's The Skeleton.
- Authors
Wratch, Manjinder Kaur
- Abstract
This article probes the silence surrounding the gendered violence experienced by abducted women, it also discusses, the author Amrita Pritam's role through her creative genius to re-narrativize the violated women's relationship to their loved ones, and their own identities in order to make sense of the inscriptions that the violence has left on their bodies and through this, arbitrate their survival. The Skeleton, redefines parameters of honour and chastity for the abducted woman who has been looked as 'a symbol of honour' since ages by patriarchy.
- Subjects
VIOLENCE against women in literature; CRIMES against women; SKELETON, The (Book); PRITAM, Amrita; PATRIARCHY in literature; SEXUAL objectification
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 4, p54
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Literary Criticism