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Title Interrogating Metarecit, Celebrating Petit Recits: A Postmodern Prospective on Tayeb Salih's Seasons of Migeration to the North and Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone

Author(s) Mr. Rana Faisal Ul Islam

Abstract Title: Interrogating Métarécits, Celebrating Petit Récits: A Postmodern Perspective on Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone This research aims to investigate how métarécits (grand narratives) are dismantled in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone. For this purpose, I have invoked Jean Francois Lyotard’s concept of métarécit and petit récits (mini-narratives). Furthermore, in order to support my scrutiny of the texts, I have employed Linda Hutcheon’s theorizing on (postmodern) parody and irony. The primary texts disapprove grand notions that present themselves as legitimate and grounded in truth. Both texts openly display postmodern sensibility by questioning the métarécits of narration, single-story, canonical, progress, heroic west, war, patriarchy, tradition, science, Marxism, history, and the like. The main argument of this research is to show that both texts do away with métarécits by confronting the authenticated and engaging with the conflicting petit récits. Moreover, the selected texts conform to the postmodern concept of fall of métarécits, where progress seems baneful, education a crime, War impish, justice feigned, religion a traitor, female authoritative and men timid. The selected texts seem to decode métarécits by presenting a number of mini- narratives. Since this research is qualitative and descriptive in nature, its research design is interpretive and exploratory. It is likely to be useful in understanding how postmodern criticism challenges the established and canonical patterns of thought and creatively intervenes in the production of knowledge.

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Publication Date 2023-06-13

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