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标题：Threshold: A Spatial and Ideological Barrier in South Asian Fiction - A Case study of Pakistani Women Fiction Writers
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作者：Ambreen Salahuddin ; Muhammad Zakria Zakar ; Ahmed Usman 等
期刊名称：South Asian Studies : A Research Journal of South Asian Studies
印刷版ISSN：1026-678X
出版年度：2016
卷号：31
期号：1
页码：175-185
出版社：University of the Punjab, Lahore
摘要：This paper discusses the symbolic significance of the threshold of home, a constructed perceptualbarrier between male and female spaces, with reference to the fiction produced by Pakistaniwomen writers. There are famous anonymous adages: “It is a man’s world” and “Woman’s placeis in the home.” This sums up the reality as seen by patriarchy. Taking these notions as basis,spaces for women are defined. First category is “Home” and second category is “Outer Space”.This paper focuses on one space which is seen as the space inside the home, yet it is the separatorbetween the inner space and outer space i.e. threshold. Crossing the threshold constitute an ageoldform of restraint and constraint as far as South Asian religious, cultural, social and literarytradition is concerned. In South Asian tradition, this boundary-line or threshold is symbolizedoccasionally as Laksman-rekha1, a notion from Hindu mythology. This notion comes fromRamayana, which comprises a set of legends and stories and a rich part of South Asian literaryand religious tradition. Complete works of twenty-six Pakistani women fiction writers, writing insix different languages were studied for this purpose. It was seen that threshold plays a significantrole in determining the status of women of this society, i.e. if the women stays within theboundary-line or not.
关键词：Threshold; women fiction writers; South asia; Lakeshman – Rekha