Political Irony inThe Tiger Claw
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This research is an exploration of the exploitation of political irony in the
novelTheTiger Clawby Shauna Singh Baldwin. I have come to the conclusion that
The Tiger Clawinvolves irony in it as a tool to ironize the patriarchal coercion and
hegemony. Therefore, it deals with the irrelevanceof phallogocentrism and aims at
displacing it by feminist ethos. It is a startling saga of a struggle of an ordinary
woman against Nazism in the face of holocaust.The disjunction between her actions
and the context creates irony which is political in natureby placing a seemingly
radical twenty-first century's feminist Noor in Nazi-occupied France between the First
and Second World War.