Abstract
The paper attempts to read Zulfikar Ghose’s poetry a Pakistani Diaspora
poet, by applying the theoretical frame of Dialogism proposed by Mikhail
Bakhtin in 1981. Although, Bakhtin sees poetry as monologic and
“single-voiced” (Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination 434), this paper
attempts to accomplish that poetry as a genre by virtue of its regional,
extraterritorial, transnational and eclectic appeal harbors dialogic
voices. Correspondingly, this dialogic resonance is acutely registered in
postcolonial poetry because it addresses multiple perspectives and
contexts thereby challenging poetry’s arguable monologic character. In
this regard, Ghose’s poetry is a multi-voiced discourse that is
continuously shifting, evolving, and reshaping itself, and approaching it
through Bakhtin’s dialogism opens new research avenues to engage with
the unexplored voices that people his poetry. Ghose’s poetic work,
immersed in exilic and cross-cultural paradigms, is a befitting site for
exploring dialogic propensities since Ghose writes about his roots and
home from the western cosmopolitan locations. By a close reading of
Ghose’s five collections of poetry, The Loss of India (1964), Jets from
Orange (1967), The Violent West (1972), A Memory of Asia (1984), and
50 Poems: 30 Selected 20 New (2010), this paper establishes that
postcolonial poetic discourse has germs of dialogic interactive.
Rabia Zaheer, Dr. Rizwan Akhtar. (2019) Alien Voices and Dialogic Discourse in Zulfikar Ghose’s Poetry, Journal of Research ( Humanities), Vol LV, Issue 1.
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