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本研究论文旨在重新诠释伊斯马特-丘格泰(Ismat Chughtai)的小说《利哈夫》(Lihaaf)中的性描写。本文将尝试挑战 "异性恋规范性 "ὰ la Monique Wittig 和 Judith Butler,最终为同性恋和女同性恋等其他性生活模式扫清障碍。Chughtai 勇于讨论同性恋和女同性恋等禁忌话题,一方面触怒了保守的社会,另一方面也表达了仍然受到谴责和破坏的性行为的实际普遍性。通过对这个故事进行严谨的文本分析,我们将对巴特勒和维蒂希的理论化的其他几个问题进行研究。这个故事从一个十几岁的女孩的视角进行叙述,她可以被视为恐同社会和文化环境的一个象征。故事揭示了女性性欲的主题,以及女性在异性恋婚姻中被压抑的性欲,这为同性恋铺平了道路,并打破了幽闭社会的父权制壁垒。通过 Nawab Saheb 和 Begum Jaan 这两个人物,Chughtai 突出了 "异性恋中'自然赋予的、规范的自我'与同性恋中被排斥的'他者'之间的区别",并打破了传统的婚姻观念。
Rethinking Sexuality: A Reading of Ismat Chughtai’s “Lihaaf”
This research paper seeks to reinterpret sexuality keeping in mind its fictional depiction in Ismat Chughtai’s phenomenal story “Lihaaf.” An attempt will be made to challenge “heterosexual normativity” ὰ la Monique Wittig and Judith Butler to eventually clear space for alternate sexual modes of life namely homosexual and lesbian. Chughtai’s courage to deal with taboo subjects such as homosexuality and lesbianism at one level offended the conservative society, and at another voiced the actual prevalence of sexual practices that are still denounced and undermined. Several other issues about Butler’s and Wittig’s theorization will be examined through rigorous textual analysis of this story which is narrated from the perspective of a teenage girl who can be considered a symbol of the homophobic social and cultural milieu. The story brings to light the subject of female sexuality and the presence of repressed sexual desires of females in a heteronormative marriage which paves the way to homosexuality and breaks the patriarchal barriers of a claustrophobic society. Through the characters of Nawab Saheb and Begum Jaan, Chughtai foregrounds “the distinction between the “naturally given, normative ‘self’ of heterosexuality and the rejected ‘other’ of homosexuality” as well as dismantles the conventional notion of marriage.