ABSTRACT
Tehmina Durrani is a Pakistani women’s rights activist and social worker who has made her indelible mark in the field of autobiography with My Feudal Lord. Autobiographies are modes of self-representation where binaries between writing as artistic venture and as political and social discourse melt to form another kind of discourse. Durrani’s commitment to the social cause is also reflected in her second book A Mirror to the Blind. She wrote her life story to cast stones at feudal hypocrisy and break the traditional silence of women about their victimization. Durrani was forced to sign all essential documents to transfer the ownership of all their properties in England and Pakistan to her husband Mustafa Khar. Durrani felt that by breaking her silence and sharing her experiences of trauma she was on the path of Islam because to suffer injustice and humiliation silently was more sinful than the act of exploitation and violence itself.
