Living in Oblivion:  A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Daniyal Mueenuddin’s  Short Story “Provide, Provide”

Daniyal Mueenuddin is a renowned Pakistani-American writer whose collection of stories entitled “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” won “The Story Prize” and “The Common Wealth Writing Prize”. The present story taken from this collection portrays the life of women in Pakistani patriarchal society where their life is always at stake. By using Lazar’s theory of feminist critical discourse analysis, the study highlights the miserable and subjugated state of women and also exposes the hidden ideology leading to male dominance.