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The stories of Banu Mushtaq’s collection Heart Lamp are not about Kings or Queens rather they talk about common man who belongs to the last line. These stories are so much captivating that one cannot ignore them. Like William Wordsworth, Banu Mushtaq has also taken the subject matter from the common man’s life. Her characters also come from the real world where they can be seen often. This paper tries to study the select short stories from the perspective of gender where women of middle-class families resist at their level and tries to overcome the obstacles of dominance. This collection of short-stories has day to day issues related to common men. Somewhere there is role of gender due to which women resist and while doing so the inner voice tries to come out and shriek in different forms.
Mohd Faiez. “Resistance in the Select Stories of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 2, Apr. 2026, pp. 984–994. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n2.62.
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