Abstract:this article delves into the discourse of motherhood and the girl-child as deconstructed by Ismat Chughtai in A Life in Words (2012) and The Crooked Line (2003). these two works due to their intertextual connections and thematic similarities become appropriate tools for analyzing Ismat's concern with femininity as a complex web of tangible relations. Ismat's women, even though living cloistered lives exert their individuality and authority in discursive ways. the girl-child narrator in both these works is a sp… Show more
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