A Review :The Male Characters by Indian Women in Urdu Afsana

Abstract

From the beginning, women Afsana writers of Urdu have been walking side by side with male Afsana writers in the field of fiction. Women have interpreted society and life From the beginning, women Afsana writers of Urdu have been walking side by side with male Afsana writers in the field of fiction. Women have interpreted society and life through different characters in their Afsana. Indian women Afsana writers have contributed to Urdu literature. Among them are many well-known women Afsana writers like Ismat Chaghtai, Quratul Ain Haider, Jilani Bano, Wajida Tabasim, Renu Bahl, Salma Sanam etc. These women have played male characters. They have presented the majority of male characters in a negative way, but there are also contradictions in their attitudes towards men. Generally, men are targeted in their Afsana.  Indian culture has created male characters according to socio-economic conditions and times.

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