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VOL. 12, ISSUE 2 (2026)
Gendered voices across languages: Multilingual narratives and multicultural understanding
Authors
Kirti Choudhary
Abstract
In an increasingly globalized literary landscape, multilingual narratives have emerged as powerful sites for negotiating gender, identity, and cultural belonging. This paper examines how gendered voices are constructed, mediated, and transformed across languages, arguing that multilingualism is not merely a stylistic device but a political and cultural strategy. Drawing upon feminist literary theory, postcolonial discourse, and translation studies, the study explores how linguistic hybridity, code-switching, and cultural translation reshape narrative authority and challenge patriarchal as well as colonial hierarchies embedded within language itself.
Through qualitative textual analysis of selected contemporary transnational texts, the article investigates the relationship between language and gendered subjectivity, demonstrating how female and marginalized voices negotiate power through multilingual expression. The study highlights how multilingual narratives create spaces of resistance by destabilizing monolingual dominance and enabling alternative epistemologies. Furthermore, it examines how translation operates as both mediation and transformation, influencing the reception and reinterpretation of gendered experiences across cultural contexts. The findings suggest that multilingual literary practices foster multicultural understanding by encouraging cross-cultural empathy, disrupting rigid identity binaries, and foregrounding the politics of voice and representation. Ultimately, the paper contributes to ongoing debates in feminist and postcolonial literary studies by positioning multilingualism as a critical tool for rearticulating gendered agency in transnational literature.

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Pages:37-41
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Kirti Choudhary "Gendered voices across languages: Multilingual narratives and multicultural understanding ". International Journal of English Research, Vol 12, Issue 2, 2026, Pages 37-41
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