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Item A Paracolonial Comparative Exegesis of Post 911 Pakistani and Indian Anglophone Diaspora Fiction(UMT, Lahore, 2021) Ayesha PerveenThis thesis compares post 9/11 Pakistani and Indian diaspora Anglophone fiction by excavating the fictional response to ever-changing international political scenario and its impact on both the countries after 9/11. Pakistan and India, who are neighbours with a troubled history, have been evolving as nation-states in different directions since independence, which also paved way for different literary trajectories for their literature written in English. Whereas early post-partition writings are replete with the fictional representation of the 1947 partition and assertion of unique national identities confronting British legacy; post 9/11 fiction explores issues like the impact of war on terror on identity and ethnicity, individuality and hybridity, religion and culture, challenges faced by the contemporary diaspora, and the problematization of a sense of belonging in a transnational globalized world. This thesis aims to compare the identity formation of the characters as presented in Indian and Pakistani post 9/11 diaspora Anglophone fiction by employing James Marcia’s theory of identity development. The impact of post 9/11 terror on Indian and Pakistani diaspora in a globalized and transnational world is discussed by highlighting their evolution from directionless ambivalent subjectivities to decisive individuals.Item Deconstruction of American Dream in Edward Albee’s The American Dream(UMT, Lahore, 2021) Faiza ZaheerThis dissertation is an attempt to apply Jacques Derrida’s Theory of Deconstruction to the American Dream and its linguistic treatment by Edward Albee in his play The American Dream (1961). Different deconstructive terms such as Différance, Erasure and Aporia have been applied to understand and analyze the language of Albee’s The American Dream. While applying these terms to the philosophical tropes of the American Dream, the selected play has been discursively analyzed within the context of both old American Dream, as envisaged by its founding fathers, and the new American Dream as defined by James Truslow Adams (1931). These deconstructive terms will help the readers to understand the themes and discourse of modern and postmodern American drama in general and those of Albee’s in particular. This in turn makes the reader realize that American dream as depicted and projected in Albee’s play is based on materialism, illogicality, futility and absurdity.Item Colonial Encounters Revisited(UMT, Lahore, 2021) Hafiz Muhammad Zahid IqbalThis is a study of colonial encounters as articulated in the novels Bengal Nights: A Novel and It Does Not Die: A Romance written by Mircea Eliade and Maitreyi Devi respectively. By revisiting these texts through Nirmala Menon’s critical insights on Bhabha’s hybridity discourse and Elisabeth Jackson’s conceptual parameters of Indian feminism, the aim is to reinterpret the novels as emancipatory praxis that both the writers long for in their (post)colonial narratives. Besides, this rereading of the novels is garnered from Bhabha and Spivak’s respective postcolonial theories, to contribute to the existing scholarship on postcolonial studies.Item Development of Androgynous Identities(UMT, Lahore, 2022) Bushra SiddiquiThis dissertation contends that androgynous identities are presented and developed by both British and Pakistani English fiction following the feminist perspective. Androgyny includes the characteristics associated with the manifestation of dual genders traits that are based on stereotypical images of gender and become a symbol of recognition of the assigned gender roles in a patriarchal society. The selected British text, Orlando, deals with the topic boldly by depicting androgyny in not only internal and psychological dimension but also encompasses the external and physiological aspect. In the socio-cultural oppositional binary, the selected Pakistani texts follow the Eastern patriarchal traditions and androgynous characters illustrate the duality of characteristics through the evolution of female characters.Item The Diachronic Evolution of Female Corporeality in Postmodern Pakistani Fiction(UMT, Lahore, 2023) Shamsa MalikThis study explores the crisis of female corporeality and how the self sublimates the resultant pain into psychological empowerment. The research attempts to excavate different channels through which the Pakistani woman attains gradual freedom from the patriarchal standards of the Pakistani society. She undergoes a trajectory of physical sufferings and psychological traumas which she sublimates and transforms into an empowering energy. By focusing on the study of body the research utilizes the broader framework of postcolonial feminist literary criticism to trace the diachronic evolution of these women and concludes that Pakistani women are gradually moving towards emancipation. The female characters in the three primary sources of this research The Pakistani Bride (1990) by Bapsi Sidhwa, Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) by Nadeem Aslam, and Karachi You’re Killing Me! (2014) by Saba Imtiaz appear to be the oppressed and marginalized entities that could not master their choices or muster up courage to fight for the fulfillment of their desires.Item Tracing Issues of Identity, Gender, and Politics in Contemporary Pakistani Literary Journalism(UMT, Lahore, 2024) FaiqaThe current research aims to explore the contribution of contemporary Pakistani writers in the field of Literary Journalism. During the last two decades, Pakistani writers and their oeuvre based on fiction writings became popular due to themes associated with the post 9/11 scenario. Simultaneously, there have been plenty of works written by Pakistani writers in Creative Nonfiction (CNF), including travelogues, articles, memoirs, essays etc. which could not become the focus of debate in the literary circles due to the unacknowledged status of the genre. CNF works are of paramount importance because they offer an immediate critique of significant current events, situations, or beliefs, but unfortunately, they are neither acknowledged nor archived. Considering this lack of attention, the research addresses the need to acknowledge literary journalism (LJ), which is a subgenre of CNF, as a popular genre in Pakistani literature by evaluating the nonfiction writings of Mohsin Hamid, Mohammad Hanif, and Bina Shah. This research is an effort to discover the ‘position’ of writers as social thinkers in developing narratives of national, gender, and political identity.Item INTERTEXTUALITY AND DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION IN POPULAR PAKISTANI NATIONAL SONGS(UMT, Lahore, 2025-04-09) Amna MukhtarThe current research investigates the evolution of language in Pakistani national songs with the changes in social and geopolitical circumstances since the establishment of Pakistan. The study utilizes Fairclough’s (1992) conception of ‘intertextuality’ and Wodak’s (2009) Discourse Historical Approach to analyze the data segments. The dataset comprises 428 national songs’ lyrics.