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TRANSGRESSING HOPI GENDER ROLES A SPATIAL STUDY OF POLINGAYSI QOYAWAYMAS NO TURNING BACK

03 Pages : 20-26

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).03      10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).03      Published : Jun 2021

Transgressing Hopi Gender Roles: A Spatial Study of Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back

    Native American cultures are constituted upon the gendered division of labor. The economic spaces are constructed upon gender roles that allocate specific roles to Native American men and women. The subsequent socio-economic patterns allocate spatially marginalized positions to the Native American woman in comparison with men. The present study explores Native American woman's transgression of traditional economic spaces of Native Americans in Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back. This study employs Doreen Massey's theoretical formulation of economic space to understand the protagonist's transgression of Hopi gender roles. This study maintains that the protagonist of the novel subverts conventional Hopi division of labor by adopting subversive gender roles.

    Economic Space, Gender Roles, Hopi Culture, Native American Woman, Spatiality, Transgression
    (1) Fasih ur Rehman
    Lecturer, Department of English, Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Kanza Umer Khan
    Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Ali Usman Saleem
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Cite this article

    APA : Rehman, F. u., Khan, K. U., & Saleem, A. U. (2021). Transgressing Hopi Gender Roles: A Spatial Study of Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back. Global Regional Review, VI(II), 20-26. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).03
    CHICAGO : Rehman, Fasih ur, Kanza Umer Khan, and Ali Usman Saleem. 2021. "Transgressing Hopi Gender Roles: A Spatial Study of Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back." Global Regional Review, VI (II): 20-26 doi: 10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).03
    HARVARD : REHMAN, F. U., KHAN, K. U. & SALEEM, A. U. 2021. Transgressing Hopi Gender Roles: A Spatial Study of Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back. Global Regional Review, VI, 20-26.
    MHRA : Rehman, Fasih ur, Kanza Umer Khan, and Ali Usman Saleem. 2021. "Transgressing Hopi Gender Roles: A Spatial Study of Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back." Global Regional Review, VI: 20-26
    MLA : Rehman, Fasih ur, Kanza Umer Khan, and Ali Usman Saleem. "Transgressing Hopi Gender Roles: A Spatial Study of Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back." Global Regional Review, VI.II (2021): 20-26 Print.
    OXFORD : Rehman, Fasih ur, Khan, Kanza Umer, and Saleem, Ali Usman (2021), "Transgressing Hopi Gender Roles: A Spatial Study of Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back", Global Regional Review, VI (II), 20-26
    TURABIAN : Rehman, Fasih ur, Kanza Umer Khan, and Ali Usman Saleem. "Transgressing Hopi Gender Roles: A Spatial Study of Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back." Global Regional Review VI, no. II (2021): 20-26. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).03