A DREAM OF CHANGE: A STUDY OF ROKEYASAKHAWATHUSSAIN’SSULTANA’S DREAM

Abstract

The fourteen-page novella Sultana's
Dream became one of the most radical early
works by women activists. Social dislocation in
pre-independence India is depicted in Rokeya's
work. Rokeya's women's activism thoughts
were ahead of her Western partners.. It's
possible that Rokeya prepared the groundwork
for women's liberation in the Third World. She
demonstrates the connection between a culture
centred on men and imperialism. Rokeya's
concerns about women's activism aren't simply
theoretical; she's already put her plan into
action. Rokeya, on the other hand, has come up
with a solution to the problem of sexual
orientation subordination. Her women's
activism isn't confined to her own
neighbourhood or to her own social strata;
rather, it encompasses discouraged and
persecuted women from all networks. The
male-dominated culture that Rokeya despises in
general is held responsible for the plight and
agony of women, like an extreme women's
activist. A new societal and political structure is
needed to combat sexual orientation abuse, she
says. Women's liberation seemed impossible in
the face of imperialism and a society dominated
by men. Her female characters strive to liberate
themselves from the constraints imposed by a
patriarchal society. Rokeya dismantles the
presumption that women's empowerment and
Islam are incompatible. She uses religious
sacred texts as a strategy to bolster her
argument for gender equality. That western
feminist activism is not applicable everywhere is
demonstrated by Rokeya. When the first wave
of women's rights was at its peak in the United
States and the United Kingdom, her
compositions appeared. Disregard was shown
for the needs of working-class women, poor
women, and women of colour. In contrast to
her western peers who were constrained to the
issues of white collar class instructed women,
Rokeya's works demanded'sisterhood'.