POLITICAL MOBILIZATION, CONSCIOUSNESS OF SUBALTERNITY

A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE IN CONTEMPORARY PAKISTANI FICTION

Authors

  • Sanniya Sara Batool PhD Scholar, Department of English Literature, Government College University Faisalabad Author

Keywords:

Contemporary Fiction , Text Analysis, Subalternity, Pakistani Fiction, Post-colonialism

Abstract

This paper examines the incredible portrayal of underestimated organizations and the way they lease their awareness to destroy treacheries by breaking down the four books from the Pakistani female essayists Shamsie and Javeri. The subaltern warfare in the society inside the quest in their self-sufficient self and it is performed with the assist of continuous resistance on their element. Colonized and subalterns display their resistance to counter not only the British Raj but the upper strata of the society. Inside the like way, transgender, women resist the conventional norms of the mainstream by way of growing anti-normative frame and by adopting new roles within the society. Shamsie uses an imaginary climate to enlighten potential strategies for overcoming any issues among advantaged and inferior networks. Inferior Examinations target finding lost spirits of the overall population dwelling in smothered circumstances, communicating their quietness to check their existence known and giving them their due credit and spot in the historiography. The point of convergence of the research was to convey the ignored experiences of subalterns to lime light while similarly highlighting the elective stories which emerged during the time spent giving them a nice ear and keep their deterrent regardless of force structures. Subalterns are the discouraged and the browbeaten masses enslaved and minimized based on standing, religion, culture, orientation and so on. They are deserted and ignored during the history composing too. The discoveries of the review showed that all the texts re-established and got the failed to remember narratives, resistance and opposition of the subalterns with aptitude and at incredible length. They additionally projected the different accounts fighting, testing and destroying the prevailing renditions of history coming from the power structures.

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Published

26-12-2021

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POLITICAL MOBILIZATION, CONSCIOUSNESS OF SUBALTERNITY: A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE IN CONTEMPORARY PAKISTANI FICTION. (2021). Inception-Journal of Languages and Literature, 1(2), 67-85. https://journalsriuf.com/index.php/IJLL/article/view/18