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| Paper Title: | CULTURAL COLLISION: A STUDY OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FAUZIA KASSINDJA’S DO THEY HEAR YOU WHEN YOU CRY? |
| Authors Name: | Dr. Palvi Mangotra |
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| Published Paper Id: | IJRTI2205022 |
| Published In: | Volume 7 Issue 5, May-2022 |
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| Abstract: | A cultural and gender based practice FGM common among Arabs, Africans and the Diaspora, has been represented in many literary works. Due to globalization and immigration FGM has spread its roots in all over the world. Even the countries like U.S., Canada, and India are not untouched by it where girls between the age groups of 4 to 14 are brutally mutilated by means of this practice. Literature is representation of the reality so FGM finds its way in literary texts like Fauzia Kassindija’s Do They Hear You When You Cry? This paper will bring fore the theme of physical and psychological sufferings of women by making a close study of social concerns of the society. That is why Psychoanalytic Feminism is used to discuss women’s experiences from women’s perspective. This paper describes the background about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a cultural practice which is an essential element for understanding the continuation of FGM and the barriers to change it. The present study is an attempt to depict that virginal conduct which is one aspect of female sexuality is socially constructed by the patriarchal institutions whose intent is to frame and control the sexual identities of women in which FGM serves as a tool. For the past two decades FGM has been on the development and gender agenda by the United Nations (UN) agencies and NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations), academics and local governments. The present paper focuses on the writer who dealt with the sensitive issue of FGM in the most emotional way and bought to light the problems faced when two different cultures that are totally unaware of the difficulties of each other collide. Do They Hear You When You Cry? talked about the life of Fauzia Kassindija which was spent under the warmth, love and care of her parents who were totally against FGM. But circumstances change when her father died. Kassindija’s uncle and aunt took over the entire property and forced Kassindija to undergo FGM at the age of seventeen. She ran away in hope of help and refugee in a developed country like America but she was flabbergasted by the insensitive behaviour of INS officers. Kassindja had been beaten, trussed up in chains like a dangerous animal, tear gassed, kept in isolation until she nearly lost her mind and strip-searched repeatedly. She was punished for daring to raise a voice against patriarchal norms which could happen to anyone if the person from whom refugee was expected was unaware of the problem. This paper will focus on the problems which refugee women face when they land in a country amongst people who are not aware of the gruesome practice of FGM. It will highlight the importance of mass awareness in which media plays a very important role as it is the easiest and fastest means to reach people. |
| Keywords: | Female Genital Mutilation, Psychoanalytical Feminism, Cultural Practice, Gender based practice, Globalization and Immigration. |
| Cite Article: | "CULTURAL COLLISION: A STUDY OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FAUZIA KASSINDJA’S DO THEY HEAR YOU WHEN YOU CRY?", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 5, page no.139 - 141, May-2022, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2205022.pdf |
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