Unveiling the Identities:Tehmina Durrani's Blasphemy

Abstract

Tehmina Durrani’s writings provide innumerable instances of traditionally orchestrated institutional discourses and practices that maintain the oppression and regulation of a wife’s body irrespective of age, education, location, class and caste. By identifying similarity between various forms of oppression and locating patterns of domination, Durrani assertively challenges the patriarchal discourses and denounces the hierarchical authoritarian mindset therein. This paper studies how the writer problematises the ideological discourses produced not only by the patriarchal institution of marriage but also by the family, the state, religion and the law, in order to explore the embodied experiences and preconceptions of wives and other roles and responsibilities of women in her novel Blasphemy.