Characterization in Urdu Fiction: Bedi’s Women, Powerful Truth, Harsh Limits
Characterization in Urdu fiction begins most meaningfully when we examine how women are imagined, narrated, and confined within literary worlds. In South Asian writing, depictions of women have never been uniform: at times revered, at times possessed; sometimes sanctified as mothers, sometimes reduced to bodies, labor, or silence. This diversity is not merely an author’s … Read more
