Resistance to Colonialist and Patriarchal Ideologies in Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda

Abstract

This research analyzes Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda as a Postcolonial Feminist Fiction, which fictionalizes the periphery of the main female protagonist Lucinda after the colonialism in the Australia. The fiction focuses on the gender and cultural discrimination of the influence of colonialism and resistance to the discrimination for their identical space. Lucinda suffers a lot from the patriarchy and cultural domination throughout the fiction. Her business, visit, love and freedom all are put against by the patriarchal society. Peter Carey’s Lucinda carries the rebellious act against it and ultimately destroys the forthcoming danger exposing the female power for the gender equality and representation. It conveys the sufferings from Lucinda’s mirror to such women and for the slow awakening in them for their resistance and identity. The fiction revolves round the periphery of the postcolonial and urges to follow the main structure so there is a lot of influence of postcolonialism as well as feminism. By using Postcolonial feminism as a theoretical approach it is exposing the role of subvertion and resistance of the suffered and dominated women.