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Title Quest for Pakistaniness: A New Historicist Study of Selected Textual Narratives of Pakistani English Fiction in 1960s.

Author(s) Muhammad Faisal

Abstract This study investigates the narratives of Pakistan through the fictional works of Pakistani authors in the 1960s especially two selected novels; The Murder of Aziz Khan (1967) by Zulfikar Ghose and Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) by Attia Hosain, The former deals with Pakistan in 1960s, while the second novel covers the time period when Pakistan was being demanded initially during 1930-40s. To investigate the focal idea, New Historicist critical approach has been opted. The New Historicist views of Louis Montrose and Stephen Greenblatt have been adopted as the mode of interpretation. Contextual Analysis approach has been used as Research Methodology. The approach incorporates the contemporary non-literary texts dealing with the subject-matter similar to that of literary texts. The findings of the study state that the phenomenon of Pakistaniness is pluralistic and relative, not absolute. Different narratives about Pakistan in literary and non-literary texts represent different perspectives of Pakistaniness making the term multifaceted and intangible.

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Language English

Publication Date 2020-08-19

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