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VOL. 11, ISSUE 4 (2025)
The art of giving voice: Women’s narratives in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s fiction
Authors
Borade Shalini Punjaram, Dr. Anushruti
Abstract
This study investigates how Shauna Singh Baldwin gives voice to women’s
experiences in her short story collection English Lessons and Other Stories.
The research focuses on how women's inner lives, challenges, and actions of
resistance are portrayed in patriarchal, cultural, and diasporic settings.
Using a qualitative and text-based method, the study studies chosen tales to
understand how Baldwin foregrounds female viewpoints and converts personal pain
into meaningful narrative representation. The results demonstrate that
Baldwin’s women characters navigate identification, migration, motherhood, and
autonomy while fighting emotional, social, and cultural oppression. Baldwin
disrupts male-dominated storytelling traditions and reclaims narrative space
for women by elevating women's voices and naming tales after female heroes. The
article identifies Baldwin as an important feminist voice whose fiction employs
narrative as a strong instrument for representation, resistance, and
empowerment
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Pages:92-97
How to cite this article:
Borade Shalini Punjaram, Dr. Anushruti "The art of giving voice: Women’s narratives in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s fiction". International Journal of English Research, Vol 11, Issue 4, 2025, Pages 92-97
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