Postcolonial Feminist Theory: An Overview - Igcollege.org

Proceedings of National Seminar on Postmodern Literary Theory and Literature , Jan. 27-28, 2012, NandedSuppression of a Women--Sheetal JeevannavarM.A. III SemJ.S.S. College, Dharwad (KA)Introduction :We seen from 19 th century thewomen’s suffers lot and what is theconditions of women’s physical & &Mental health and When the womenstarted against male. And when thefeminism was started all that have seen.And what are the drawbacks of thewomen in those days all are seen.Feminist Theories:Feminism is “basic lies asociological ideology” It is nothing thebasically a life connected movement inthe world. And it is a westerncontribution to the knowledge and thefeminist theory 3 important stages.i) Feminism stages i it starts from1840-1880ii) Feminists state (1880-1920)iii) After 1920’s :in this stage thefeminist writer they left imitation &degeneracy became protestant. Theyachieved an autonomy on their writing.When women’s together thisfeminist theory was birthed. When thistheory come to all end their is oursociety will be trilling for a women andwhat is the importance’s of women isknow to the male.So now we seen in the shortstory and “the Veil” it is fully concernedwith feminism so what are the criticalconditions women has sulfur in thosedays so all are rear in this 2 short stories.Key words :i) Social norms in society.ii) Supprenious of a womaniii) Female imprisonmentII)iv) Gender discriminationsv) Male prostitution towards female ideai) In those days the society made up thefemale like a prison the can’t get anyopportunity or any freedom or her ownidea. Women sits in home she cant gooutside ours she do Wales this is thecondition of women in those days so inthe short story “The veil” also depictssame attitude. In that short story“Goribi” She is the main character in thisshort story. So whatever she think andwhat’s the idea in her mind it is notlisten by others and in the age of 14 sheis married with a black fellow calledkalmia he is so black and he is a verystubborn, immature, aggressive and henever used to submit himself to other’swin there some character of thispersonality. In this short story the maincharacter of “Goribi” is one of the main& important character and she is a verybeautiful and extremely sky modestlacking cur rage girl. When she marriedthat black boy she did know aboutmarriage and that maturity level was notincrease in their mind and she alwayswearing “Veil” it represents thesuppression of the women. It is not onlya cloth but it is a prison for a women. Sowhen she wear that veil it is a acompulsory for the Muslim religions. Sowhat society do that is the final for everyreligion so it is in those days veil iscalled as a imprisonment for a women’sbut now a days it is not compulsory.In every religion has herown tradition and he own cultural andher own identity but apart from this theman should not revolt against theresocial norms. So every man has followher own religions rules so in this shortstory we seen social worms in society.In the olden days the w2omenhas not given equal status grow and inevery path she cannot grow. And inthose days the female child is bad for thefamily. And she not given her ownfreedom and whatever she like she can’tdo what in the family tells only that thing376 PLTL-2012: ISBN 978-81-920120-0-1