The Subaltern Un-silenced: A Postcolonial Explication of Sidhwa's Ice-Candy Man

This research presents the voice of the unvoiced subaltern by giving a postcolonial explication of Sidhwa’s novel Ice-Candy Man. The primary aim is to present not the narrative of Muslim, Hindu or Sikh but that of a Parsi girl who showcases the brutal experiences of hers and the people around her, from a neutral position, during unrest caused as a result of two-nation theory. The secondary aim is to showcase the history of blood and violence caused by outsiders and to highlight how Sidhwa un-silences the sub-altern from afeminist perspective as well. The objectives of this research include examination of how identities are shattered and reconstructed; how ties are broken and formed, and deconstruction of the replication of reality. This study fills the gap in research on the partition literature of India and Pakistan utilizing postcolonial theory. This research uses Postcolonial theory and the arguments of Edward Said, Althusser, Homi K. Bhabha and others. Future researchers can build their research on the partition of 1947 through the lens ofpostcolonial theory by becoming acquainted with this research which deciphers Sidhwa’s depiction of partition.