In 2009-10, I have decided to do the doctorate in the art of filmmaking. Those were the years of extreme decline for Pakistan’s film industry. Pakistani film was almost over and there was no eviden ... Read More
For Lacan, in a social order characterized by the Law of the Father, women’s identity is erased and they have to appropriate themselves according to the idea of the ‘feminine’ as conceived by mascu ... Read More
Employing Tobin Siebers’s notion of “trauma art” from his “The Return to Ritual: Violence and Art in the Media Age”, this paper aims at a parallel examination of the co-presence of beauty and viole ... Read More
Brecht’s canonical literary work and its controversial indigenization in Pakistan can offer a valuable transcultural adaptation study because it was performed through a radical theatre with a distin ... Read More
This paper aims to justify counter hegemonic effects of hybridity in Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet from the subaltern perspective. This study explores linguistic, cultural, political and racial hybri ... Read More
The work of media is twofold- one shaping individual perspective of the world and two, synchronizing thoughts with what is being represented through the medium. Although study on the violence infli ... Read More
The paper critically analyses Kamila Shamsie’s highly political novel Home Fire by juxtaposing the character; Karamat Lone and Parvaiz Pasha as the two extreme viewpoints representing the rise of o ... Read More
This paper is a queer spatial study of the episode Chewing Gum of the Pakistani anthology series, Kitni Girhaiñ Bāqi Haiñ2 (2016- ). This 40-minute episode marked the first instance of onscreen les ... Read More
A widely-held perception which has developed through and within the feminist literary as well as theoretical framework is to analogize the land ravaged by war to a female body raped by the aggressi ... Read More
This research explores the city as an anthropomorphic and alive character in the fiction of the Indian- Australian writer Aravind Adiga namely The White Tiger (2008) and The Last Man in Tower (2011) ... Read More
Literature has been studied in every age according to the critical tools available to the readers and critics of that age. Literature has been studied in humanist perspective with its focus on objec ... Read More
This paper aims to study blindness as a physical impairment and as a metaphor in The Geometry of God by Uzma Aslam Khan. The paper uses both medical and literary discourse to provide functional def ... Read More
This article attempts to construct a theoretical category that can be applied to knowledge production within the fields of culture and identity politics. To extrapolate the category, safe scholarshi ... Read More
Tariq Ali’s Night of the Golden Butterfly combines past and present times in its treatment of the theme of history with a visible feminine difference. The important women characters in the novel ser ... Read More
Epistemic disobedience and border doing/thinking requires to shift the geography of knowing, sensing and understanding. The shift means to start from what the vocabulary (in the disciplines as well ... Read More
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