This study further argues that the issue of subalternity is constructed/developed due to assimilation, domestic colonialism, and baseless power-structure in rural areas of Sindh. Finally, the paper finds gender, age, class, culture, and law as some eminent factors cause subalternity in the lives of the selected rural women of Sindh. Following textual analysis, this study applies close reading method to analyse the issue of subalternity. The Museum of Innocence is the most recent novel by Pamuk, Turkish novelist and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature (its Turkish title is Masumiyet Müzesi, 2008) 1. behind the women subordination, this study takes support from Guha and Spivakian subaltern-based theoretical argumentations as a framework. Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk has opened a museum displaying artifacts in parallel with his novel Museum of Innocence, which tells a love story lasting three. To reconsider the power-politics working. These stories represent the women as second sex who willingly or unwillingly subordinate to the male dominated society. To re-conceptualize the process of construction of subordination in the lives of the women of rural Sindh, this paper analyses two contemporary stories (both fictional and real stories) of the women with reference to the history of Sindh. Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow.
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