Repression and Resistance of Women in Salman Rushdies'sShame

Abstract

The research entitled “Repression and Resistance of Women in Salman Rushdie’sShame” concerns the trials and tribulations of women and their concomitantresistance under postcolonial context by showing their silent means of revolt. The depiction of women characters have been assigned full treatment so as to bring forth the context in which they have undergone the sufferings and have revolted against it silently. Male characters have imposed unwanted troubles on the women. In all the events, women characters are left uncared. Women have been just used as objects--either for producing children or for becoming mere wives. On the other hand, the effectsof colonialism have also aggravated their conditions even more by leaving the societies in the traditional chaos and, thereby, not refurbishing their poor state. So, the concept of ‘double colonization’ works here beneath the surface. Rushdie, indeed, strives to show how women lived their pitiable lives in the transitional period in Pakistan after the literal end of colonialism. In the same way, the chaos and disorder left by colonialism has made wide space for the males to exploit the women. Similarly,the power politics is another mode wherein women have been again victimized by no one save men.