Abstract
Chronotope is a word given to timespace by Mikhail
Bakhtin in his book The Dialogic Imagination (1938). There he explains
that in a novel chronotopes serve as those literary tools which show
time and its visible effects on the spatial expanses (84). He adds that,
chronotopes are characterised as literary temporal and spatial
indicators that are artistically visible and are intrinsically fused as a
whole (84). The present paper uses Bakhtin’s Chronotopic study of
intrinsic interconnectedness of timespace as a framework to assimilate
causes of violence and discontent on the geographical spaces of
Peshawar and Afghanistan in Nadeem Aslam’s The Blindman’s Garden
(2013) during the Post 9/11 terrorist attack. These countries represent
spatially colonized nations where the regulation of colonial time period
had disempowered the indigenous people from their communal spatial
experiences. Hitherto, the collision and intersection of polar social,
political and cultural forces caused due to the impact of war time on the
spatial boundaries of these countries leave the native people in an
emptied sense of disorientation. Hence, Bakhtin’s concept of
chronotopic analysis grants permission to expose the violence and
political conflicts within these colonized nations and people embossed
through weft of time; which primarily have been infused into the works
of Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone authors.
Zakia Resshid, Dr. Amra Raza. (2019) Exploration of Literary Chronotopes in Contemporary Anglophone Pakistani Fiction, Journal of Research ( Humanities), Vol LV, Issue 1.
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