Male gaze to female gaze
| dc.contributor.author | Fiza Ishtiaq | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-20T19:23:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-20T19:23:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research aims to explore the meaning of art through Manto’s school of literary criticism under the South Asian context. In this paper, Saadat Hasan Manto’s two short stories on the fierce massacre of lives and emotions will be compared under Charles H.Caffin’s theory, Art for Life’s Sake. Partition is considered to be the most horrifying period of history which provoked Manto and many other writers to transcribe the harsh realities taken place on the name of religion and nationalism. This qualitative research offers an analysis of Manto’s art of writing as a standard form of literature that reflects the lives of millions of people during, pre- and post-partition. By analyzing his two short stories, Thanda Gosht (Cold Meat) (translated by Bhalla) and Toba Tek Singh (translated by Tahira Naqvi), it further analyzes that how Manto’s writings reflects the universality in his art of writing. His major themes revolved around the frights of partition, rape, prostitution and social evils embodied in human nature, especially men. Exploring Manto’s subject of concern, it will further analyze the canons set by the humans themselves, bringing the sense of acclaimed ‘obscenity’ and ‘exaggeration’ in the open Urdu narratives. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/11138 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | UMT, Lahore | |
| dc.title | Male gaze to female gaze | |
| dc.title.alternative | Analysis of Manto’s short stories under art for life’s sake | |
| dc.type | Thesis |