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| Article Name : | | | Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy-Man: A Feminist Artefact | | Author Name : | | | S. T. Waghmode | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-754 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Bapsi Sidhwa, a twentieth century Pakistani Parsee woman, like Khushwant Singh and Chaman Nahal, has recaptured the pulse of historic past of the partition days in her novel Ice-Candy- Man. (1988) The novel covers some of the years of the pre-partition period during which the human consciousness was tossed across some barriers like religion and hatred in human life. Religion had become, once again, a source of strife, struggle and separation for existence. Unfortunately, for centuries, the word religion with its true spirit has not been properly understood by the humankind. One wonders to find out the. evaporation of its essence and its ugly residue disturbing human relations. This paper attempts to focus the human experiences with the special emphasis on the dynamics of man-woman relationship in this novel. An eight-year-old, physically deformed girl-Lenny is the narrator in this novel. Although the novelist has tried to create a kind of innocence in the novel, it, later on, falls short and there is the authorial narration in it. It is natural that a girl of eight could not have grasped the vastness of the happenings around the city of Lahore- the place of action. | | Keywords : | | |
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