SILENCE AS A RHETORICAL TACTIC: A CRITICAL STUDY ON MONICA ALI’S BRICK LANE

Mausumi Pattanayak, Dr. Mukesh Tiwari

Abstract: Third-world women's lives and identities have long been determined by their silence. It is taken into account while characterising their marginalisation and fragility. Silence can be taken both as strength and weakness. This paper aims to explore the extend to which silence has been used as a power and not a necessarily a sign of passivity or helplessness. Brick Lane (2003) brings up modern contexts where topics like multiculturalism, migration, and silence are examined. In the perspective of postcolonial feminism, this paper aims to analyse the many strategies employed by Monica Ali to portray various forms of silence. The primary goal is to identify the many types of silence shown in the story and how they affect the identities of female migrant Muslims. It looks into how being silent affects how women identify themselves. This paper explores muslim migration in the context of the Modern English novel. The novel explores many situations where remaining silent is viewed as a sign of weakness. It also talks about a type of silence that is thought to empower feminine identity. In light of Postcolonial Feminism, it is concluded that Monica Ali’s In order to provide readers with a more accurate and useful grasp of the concept of feminine stillness in both its active and passive manifestations, Brick Lane should be rewritten.  
Keywords: Silence, Muslim migrant, identity.