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Title NEO-IMPERIALIST CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVES TO THE SYSTEM IN PAKISTAN: A CRITIQUE OF TARIQ ALI’S WORKS

Author(s) Kalsoom Khan

Abstract ABSTRACT Thesis Title: Neo-imperialist Capitalist Globalization and Socialist Alternatives to the System in Pakistan: A Critique of Tariq Ali’s Works Tariq Ali’s fiction has been mainly explored in relation to the subjects of representation of Islamic histories, cultures and Muslim identity. In the wake of Marxist Postcolonial literary criticism, Ali’s fictional engagement with the politico-economic concerns of the postcolonial and global milieu assumes enormous significance for an investigation into the phenomena of global capitalism and its concomitant neocolonialism. A study of the selected fictional and non-fictional texts of Tariq Ali from the theoretical perspective of Marxist Postcolonial Studies would not only unravel the predominant thematic pattern of the texts but also establish a strong connection with the contemporarily pertinent subjects of the global operation of capitalism in tandem with American neo-imperialism, and class division as well as neocolonial modes of operation in postcolonial context. The subjects are inextricably linked with the organization and role of socialist movements within postcolonial states, such as the Twenty-first Century Socialism in the present times, in challenging the above-mentioned historical processes. Tariq Ali’s fictional works foreground, more than any other subject, the socio-economic and political conditions of postcolonial context in a global capitalist and neo-imperialist order. Keywords: Neo-imperialism, Global Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Class Division, Modes of Neocolonialism, 21st Century Socialism

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Publication Date 2020-12-15

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