El ámbito doméstico en Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) de Attia Hosain: Cuando el hogar refleja el mundo
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Attia Hosain, partición de India, ficción doméstica, la cultura de purdah/zenana, mujeres musulmanas, feminismo del Sur de Asia, aristocracia del hogar musulmán, Sunlight on a Broken ColumnResumen
El presente estudio analiza el significado del concepto hogar en la literatura de la Partición india a través del análisis de la novela Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961), de Attia Hosain. El enfoque teórico de este artículo se basa en el estudio del autor postcolonial Partha Chatterjee en el que se establece que el hogar se convierte en espacio sagrado a través del cual el nacionalismo indio es capaz de salvaguardar los valores intrínsecos indios frente a la amenaza de occidente en concordancia con la diferencia de las esferas individuales/familiares y las sociales. Hosain demuestra que el ámbito público y el privado están totalmente relacionados, desmitificando la presuposición de que el ámbito privado está fuera de la historia. La autora lo demuestra en esta novela describiendo el espacio doméstico como un microcosmos a través del cual reflexiona sobre los cambios socio-políticos que tienen lugar en el país en la cronología de la novela. De este modo, la descripción que se ofrece en la novela sobre el velo y el área de reclusión que las mujeres musulmanas tienen reservada en sus viviendas pretende mostrar el ámbito doméstico como lugar que refleja y regula los valores patriarcales que definen familia, sociedad y religión y que, al mismo tiempo, convierten el ámbito del hogar en un espacio claustrofóbico para las mujeres que lo habitan. Por tanto, este artículo ilustra cómo Hosain refleja la Partición desde una narrativa subversiva y ginocéntrica.
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