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American Research Journal of English and Literature
ISSN (Online): 2378-9026
DOI: 10.46568/arjel
Silenced Women in Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha (1997): A Marxist Feminist Study
Abstract
The paper investigates the silencing of women in the patriarchal society of Japan and explores the reasons that contribute
towards female subjugation with specific focus on the primary character Sayuri in the light of Marxist Feminism. The
paper illustrates the factors responsible for silencing of women, which goes on to violence, oppression, and economic
dependence, which ultimately leads to treating them as subaltern. Moreover, this paper avers the issues concerning
taboos of sexualization and commodification of women leading to alienation, which is imposed, on women who seem to
be self-reliant and deeply access their full potentials
