Ismat Chughtai's Depiction of Homophobia Through the Story ‘Lihaaf’
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https://doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i7.10695Keywords:
: Lihaaf, Ismat Chughtai, Homosexuality, HomophobiaAbstract
This study aims to bring attention to the homophobia of the famous female writer Ismat Chughtai with the help of her infamous short story ‘Lihaaf’ published in the pre-independent India. The short story ‘Lihaaf’ is a story of a homosexual woman named Begum Jan and her homosexual husband Nawab Saheb. Through this study, we are trying to bring the homophobic depiction of characters by the writer Ismat Chughtai in the short story ‘Lihaaf’, which has been ignored for a long time.
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