Abstract
Contemporary Pakistani literature incorporates postmodern sensibility
of the present time as it belongs to South Asia that is a region quite
vulnerable to political, religious, social and cultural conflicts due to its
strategic position in the world. Postmodern fiction challenges the
modernmaster narratives of cast, creed, nation, faith, culture, knowledge,
justice, science and colonialism. The great postmodern theorist and
scholar, Jean Francois Lyotardin his The Postmodern Condition: A
Report on Knowledge (1979) refers this condition as “incredulity
towards metanarratives”.The current research study explores the
postmodern treatment of master narratives in two novels i.e. Burnt
Shadows written by Kamila Shamsie. Postmodernism provides the
theoretical background of the study while textual analysis is opted as the
research method.
Ayesha Ashraf , Munawar Iqbal Ahmad. (2017) TRANSFORMATION OF METANARRATIVES: A POSTMODERN ANALYSIS OF BURNT SHADOWS, Mayar , Volume 17-18 , Issue 1.
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