PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL READING OF FEMALE CHARACTERS IN ATIA HOSSAIN’S SUNLIGHT ON A BROKEN COLUMN

Abstract

This paper is based on Atia Hosain’s English novel Sunlight on a Broken Column. The paper at length delineated the condition of women during India’s independence movement; how the faced countless turbulations within their rigid Patriarchal society and at the same time in fulfilling their personal ambitions. It is not only the single aim of this paper to portray the historical facts in fiction but also to highlight the original psychological trauma of female characters appeared in the novel. The female characters in this novel represent Indian women of the time. This pure blending and mingling of history and fiction would unmask the hidden and repressed emotions of female characters in particular and during the time of independence they had serious obligations towards nation’s cause. In order to do something for the country they faced numerous hardships but rarely history and literature mentions their contribution. This paper would encompass all such aspects by keeping in touch with literature and history.