A Marxist Feminist Analysis Of Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Short Story ‘In Other Rooms, Other Wonders’

Abstract

In other rooms, other wonder (2009) is a collection of eight short stories by Pakistani-American author Daniyal Mueenuddin. The eight stories have a waning but still dominant feudalistic –capitalistic society of 80’s and 90’s Pakistan for a setting, where extreme luxury goes hand in hand with exploitation of the lower class. This study only focuses on one story that shares it titile with the title of the book, which is In other rooms, other wonder. This story has been viewed from the perspective of Marxism, Marxist feminism, Post-colonialism feminism, female objectification but not from the view of Marxist Feminism Social Reproduction Theory. This study endeavors to analyze the story using Marxist Feminism SRT as theoretical framework through Alan McKee’s textual analysis, to create best possible interpretation. The study found that the reproductive labor provided by women is ambiguous in its nature thus underpaid. It also finds that women providing reproductive labor are often exploited through class pressure by upper-class and through patriarchy by lower class