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The Conflicts of Muslim Women in Samina Ali’s Madras on Rainy Days

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Postgraduate Department of Studies and Research in English, Rani Channamma University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
  • 2Postgraduate Department of Studies and Research in English, Rani Channamma University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India

Res. J. Language and Literature Sci., Volume 10, Issue (3), Pages 29-32, September,19 (2023)

Abstract

This paper aims to shed light on the conflicts of Muslim women in Samina Ali’s Madras on Rainy Days. The novel deals with the limitations placed on both men and women, but more on women by misguided societal expectations. Here, Samina Ali explores the conflict between tradition, culture, and modernity. Layla, the protagonist of the novel, is modern, American-born, yet forced to go for an arranged marriage with a traditional Muslim boy from India. The novel displays the conflict of Layla’s mother also after the second marriage of her husband for the quest for a male child as she was unable to give birth to a male child. There are many other female characters in the novel that go through several conflicts. In Samina Ali’s words, "Muslim women were usually associated with words such as submissive and extremist", but this novel gives a new voice to Muslim women.

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