Name: Padam Preet Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2020
Volume: Volume-5, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 78-80

ABSTRACT:
Constant cultural and social repression and authoritarian subjugation of basic human rights have impelled the rise in number of Asian and African women to seek a ‘new narrative’ to resist the norms of race, gender and religious fundamentalism. These ‘native voices’ are either heard through mediating assistance in the writings by the Western women who make an attempt to bridge the gaps between ‘the silence’, ‘the voice’ and ‘the publication’ or directly through the narratives/memoirs assertively articulated by the ‘silenced’ women. Women in the precarious situations resulting from the political upheavals such as civil wars, the coups, the invasions and the intrusions have been striving for a more meaningful living within and outside their closed worlds. Furthermore, foreign invasions have exposed the suppressed women to exotic cultures which have ignited a spark in them to resist racism, fundamentalism and inequality of all kinds. These women are supported by other women through various International NGOs. A coterie of women from these organisations themselves have survived wars or live in exile due to civil disputes but have refused to be a victim and channelled their
experiences into helping women worldwide. These NGOs play crucial role in backing women in reconstruction, reconciliation and rehabilitation. These NGOs provide emotional and financial aid, right awareness, vocational and technical skills training and access to income generation tools. In the recent times the creative writers have ventured to depict both the diversity of women and the diversity within each woman, thus encouraging women to stir their inner selves so that they may themselves
choose the lives that they actually want to live.

Key words: Silence, Voice, NGOs, transcultural, transnational, Eurocentric, Third world