Abstract
The incident of 9/11 opened up new
challenges for the Americans and people of
the world. As the terrorists were men, the
incident of 9/11 was generally seen as a
masculine event thus erasing the traumatic
sufferings of women. The present paper is
aimed to trace the impact of Western
culturally constructed trauma against the
third world women. The major theoretical
insights have been taken from Kaplan
(2003)s Feminist Futures: Trauma, the
Post-9/11 World and a Fourth Feminism.
The analyzed data reveals that the identity of
Asma Anwar as representative of third
world women remains unstable. She has
been represented as an object of no
significance in the American society. We see
that Asma Anwar as a woman of the third
world had to bear the burden of history as
well as her body
Authors
1-Abdul Rashid Lecturer, Department of English, Bahadur Sub Campus Layyah, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.2-Sarwat Jabeen Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.3-Samia Naz Course Coordinator, Quaid-e-Azam Academy for educational Development, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords
Female Trauma, Third World Woman, Post 9/11 fiction and Fourth Wave of Feminism
DOI Number
10.31703/glr.2020(V-I).02
Page Nos
10-17
Volume & Issue
V - I