A Study Of Phallocentrism, Trauma And Suffering In Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim

Abstract

Aside From the different wars, the partition of Bangladesh and India was one among the pitiful incidents that happened in human history. Bangladesh had gone through a huge surge in humanitarian catastrophe after the 1971 Bangladesh war of partition, due to the regular occurrence of violence in both social and private domain. Massacre, abduction was pre owned to promote racial and gender hate, and women were subjugated more than men. Thousands of people were uprooted from their home during the partition and even lost their individuality. Hence, this paper investigates how the partition’s impact on women by making them the numb victim of the phallocentric ideology through the Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim. Mostly women were sexually violent, kidnapped, compelled to the slavery and died during the liberation war. Due to the phallocentric rules during liberation war women were mostly in the traumatic condition whether it is there in the family or society where they stayed in. Women suffered mentally, physically, socially and psychologically. The Good Muslim is concerned with matters of helplessness, brutality, religious turmoil, and alienation. The study will analyze the insecurities of women in the aftermath of the liberation period that is made and severed by ravishment and oppression committed at every sphere. Female leading protagonists like Maya, Rehana and Piya are presented as authorized representatives of revolution when it comes to sensitive circumstances that restore them as insignificant and not noticeable. The paper also attempts to analyze the issues for which women went through all the traumas and impact of phallocentrism on them.