Female Resistance in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Tahmima Aanam’s A Golden Age: A Comparative Study

Volume 2 Issue 2 Monsoon Edition 2022

Abstract

Aim: The paper explores the plight of women, the quest for self-actualization, and identity assertion concerning female resistance in multicultural metropolitan societies. Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane and Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age are most often analyzed from the vantage points of post-colonialism. Brick Lane deals primarily with the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrant community in London whereas A Golden Age deals with the characters that live in Bangladesh during the war of liberation. Methodology and Approach: The study is based on the novel G. Kalyana Rao’s Untouchable Spring as a primary text. It speaks of the stories of exploitation and oppression that the female characters undergo. Outcome: The present paper is based on Anam’s A Golden Age and Ali’s Brick Lane which highlights female resistance in a male-dominated society. It also analyses the challenges of married women as social beings. They endured, before marriage and in wedlock. The present paper aims to prove that female resistance against power groups is actually at the forefront of Ali’s novel and Anam’s novel and the female characters in Brick Lane and A Golden Age stand for female resistance on the abyss between theoretical gender equality and practical real-life sexist attitude of patriarchal society and inequality in the societyConclusion and Suggestion: Through the women characters in the novel, Anam and Ali depict feminine strives, sexual violence, and traumatic experiences women endure. Anam’s and Ali’s writings have impressive characters that raise the voice of voiceless women of Bangladesh as well as all women folk.