The Postmodern Notion of Gender in Adib Khan's Spiral Road

Author(s)	Ms. Rizwana Sanofar R, Prof. Dr. S. Azariah Kirubakaran
Country	India
Abstract	Postmodern notion of gender contends that gender is a cultural construct with performative and context- dependent dynamic ability to transcend beyond the traditional horizon. Adib Khan, an Australian diasporic novelist of Bangladeshi descent has inevitably utilized the postmodern notion of gender in his novels to showcase the shifting sense of self and gender through displacement, memory and cross-cultural negotiation. Adib Khan’s Spiral Road reflects Judith Butler’s influential idea that gender is constructed through iterative acts, rather than expressing a stable inner truth. This study aims to show how the novel Spiral Road affirms the postmodern rejection of totalizing discourses about gender and portrays gender as something constructed and deeply influenced by culture, history and personal experiences. The novel’s handling of masculinity, female agency, and the conflicts with familial and romantic relationships all point to a profoundly postmodern examination of what it means to be gendered in a postmodern society.
Keywords	Postmodernism, diaspora, performativity, resistance, cultural institutions
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On	2025-06-30

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