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    Investigating metanarratives and fragmentations in kamila shamsie’s, a god in every stone
    (UMT Lahore, 2023) Muhammad Zulqarnain Tabassum
    This study explores narrative techniques in Kamila Shamsie’s novel, A God in Every Stone (2014), through a postmodern lens. The unique reality of the text is obvious in the narrative strategies, which depart from the traditional paradigms. The two main genres of postmodernism namely fragmentation, and meta-narratives are the main principles under the framework of postmodernism, which will be scrutinized. The author employs strategies that supersede traditional narrative requisites, such as time, space, composition, and characters. This research thesis enunciates the distinct features of Jean François Lyotard’s ideology of knowledge and concept of ‘Incredulity towards metanarratives’ in Kamila Shamsie’s novel. This research study scrutinizes the language games and postmodern knowledge in the pretext of the selected text to examine the utilization of metanarrative and fragmentation as explicitly and implicitly implied by the author. The metanarratives of emancipation and speculative grand narratives are interpreted in detail. The core aspect surrounds the devotion of Shamsie’s novelist structures following its spans of creative tendencies. Observing postmodernism, the researcher sheds light on the phenomena of the narrative text.