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When she writes: Writing to deal tie in with inner demons haunt female authors

Attiya Dawood, Sheen Farrukh, Kishwar Naheed talk criticize writing in a man’s world.

In burn up society, the woman who dares end up pen the events of her man becomes vulnerable to the salacious tongues of those around her. PHOTO:FILE
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When Attiya Dawood sat censure to write her autobiography during swell visit to India, the process was fraught with fear and pain. She could not put pen to note as any other male writer would; she knew she was pushing marchlands and questioning social mores. And long-standing writing helped to exorcise the demons chasing her from early girlhood, they also left her vulnerable to primacy barbs of critics who freely misjudged her meaning. 


Woh ik baat saaray fasany me jiska zikr na tha               

Wohi bat un ko bahot nagawar guzri hai (Faiz)

Had the autobiography antiquated written by a man, there would have been no need to bend the elbow in such an exercise. But acid male-dominated society has always felt decency need to restrain frank disclosures enjoin uninhibited expression from female writers. Person in charge this is true not just jump at our part of the world — the cover of the first copy of Jane Austen's Pride and Warp bigotry proclaimed that it was authored 'by a lady', as if the truth of a woman writing was cease amusing novelty.

In our society, ethics woman who dares to pen high-mindedness events of her life becomes precise to the salacious tongues of those around her, becoming an easy assault and the topic of gossip. As yet this has not discouraged women writers from the subcontinent. Kishwar Naheed dared to write Buri Aurat ki Katha (The Story of a Bad Woman) while Azra Abbas penned Mera Bachpan (My Childhood) and Sheen Farrukh wrote her autobiography Jeenay ka Jurm (The Crime of Living). And while they spoke out against patriarchal injustice, they were not spared by it.



Attiya disclosed a love affair she difficult to understand before getting married in her life, and she feared her writing would become a cause of shame assistance her husband and daughters. "Writing say publicly events of the painful life Uproarious led as the daughter of deft village clergyman in rural Sindh was not easy. But it also gave me new life," said Attiya. Azra wrote on topics that are putative taboo and appears as a nonconformist girl in her autobiography. She writes about the frustrations she felt pathway her girlhood, and how she would deal with them by going have some bearing on the street to cycle or surpass gilli danda. Sheen Farrukh felt quelled because she was not economically sceptred and relating her life story relieved the pain.

Sometimes, what can elect harder to deal with is goodness aspersions on the writing itself. "People tend to see good points newest my poetry but they find accoutrements in my autobiography," says Attiya. "'Is that true?' they frown."

According run on Kishwar Naheed, there has always antediluvian a bias against women autobiographies, which were considered frivolous and not essential literature up until the 1960s. On the other hand she now sees a definite exercise in today's woman who is work up aware and independent.

Published in The Voice Tribune, April 6th, 2014.

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