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Hassan Bin Zubair
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Echoes of Oratory: Lexical Narratives in Punjabi Folk Music Arooj; Alishba; Zainab Rasool; Hassan Bin Zubair
Punggawa Social Inquiry: Journal of Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Punggawa Social Inquiry 1(2) 2026 : September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67707/psi.v1i2.134

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This study examined the long-established tradition of Punjabi folklore and the role of rhetorical devices in shaping meaning in folk songs. Folk songs were treated as cultural narratives transmitted across generations and closely associated with marriage rituals and communal life. The study aimed to identify how rhetorical and lexical choices contributed to cultural meaning in selected Punjabi folk music. Using an analytical-descriptive and discourse-based approach, two folk songs, “O’ Mehndi Taan Sajdi” (also referred to as “Lathy di Chaddar”) and “Chitta Kukar Banare Te,” were selected for rhetorical analysis. The analysis focused on symbolism, metaphor, repetition, parallelism, assonance, consonance, and alliteration. The findings showed that rhetorical expressions performed more than an aesthetic function. They generated linguistic effects, organized musicality, represented kinship and wedding practices, and helped preserve cultural memory and identity within Punjabi communities.
Between Hope and Hazard: Human–AI Interactions in Contemporary Sci-Fi Zoha Asghar; Ayesha Quratulain; Fatima Zahra; Hassan Bin Zubair
Punggawa Social Inquiry: Journal of Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Punggawa Social Inquiry 1(2) 2026 : September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67707/psi.v1i2.135

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This study explored how Artificial Intelligence (AI) was represented in the works of American science fiction writer Robert C. Cargill, focusing on Sea of Rust (2017) and Day Zero (2021). Using qualitative textual analysis, forty passages from the two novels were examined through a human-compatible AI lens. The analysis found that AI was portrayed as both a source of technological promise and a potential threat to human autonomy, social roles, and survival. Human–AI relationships were represented as unstable and power-laden, especially when machines became capable of exceeding the functions assigned to them. The novels also associated advanced AI with questions of embodiment, emotional difference, dependence, adaptation, and environmental destruction. Overall, the study concluded that Cargill’s fiction presented AI as an increasingly unavoidable presence whose benefits remained inseparable from hazards created by human dependence and the possibility of machine supremacy.
Words of Unity: A Stylistic Study of the Pakistani National Anthem Tayaba Razzaq; Sabeen Fatima; Nazia Bagga; Khadija Naqvi; Hassan Bin Zubair
Punggawa Social Inquiry: Journal of Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Punggawa Social Inquiry 1(2) 2026 : September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67707/psi.v1i2.136

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This study explored linguistic dimensions including discourse, morphology, phonology, semantics, and syntax within a stylistic framework. The findings showed that the Pakistani National Anthem employed alliteration, compounding, rhyme patterns, imagery, and other stylistic devices that contributed to its literary and emotional effect. The structural analysis also identified grouping, prominence, and cohesion as important features in organizing the anthem as a unified poetic expression. The study focused on the linguistic and structural characteristics of the anthem written by Hafeez Jalandhari and examined how its stylistic elements conveyed national meaning. A descriptive qualitative design was employed, and the anthem was analyzed manually through stylistic and text-linguistic frameworks. The analysis indicated that phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and discourse features worked together to reinforce themes of unity, patriotism, national identity, cultural values, and religious orientation in the text.
From Sidhwa to Shamsie: Evolution of Storytelling in Pakistani Women’s Novels Rida Fatima; Hassan Bin Zubair
Punggawa Social Inquiry: Journal of Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Punggawa Social Inquiry 1(2) 2026 : September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67707/psi.v1i2.137

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This study examined the evolution of themes and narrative techniques in English-language novels by Pakistani women writers across different literary generations. Using qualitative comparative textual analysis, it considered selected works by Bapsi Sidhwa, Sara Suleri, Kamila Shamsie, Fatima Bhutto, Moni Mohsin, Uzma Aslam Khan, and Sanam Maher. The analysis focused on character representation, narrative form, language use, gender, identity, migration, memory, and socio-cultural change. The findings showed a movement from earlier concerns with cultural identity, gender discrimination, and postcolonial memory toward more transnational themes involving diaspora, political violence, hybridity, and self-realization. Contemporary fiction also displayed greater formal experimentation through fragmented chronology, multiple perspectives, and hybridized English shaped by local linguistic and cultural forms. These shifts indicated that Pakistani women novelists increasingly used narrative form as a means of negotiating gender, language, identity, and power across local and global contexts. The study concluded that this evolving literary practice broadened both the thematic range and expressive possibilities of Pakistani women’s writing in English.
Fragmented Identities and Neoliberal Feminist Readings of Faiqa Mansab’s Novel This House of Clay and Water Umm e Kulsoom; Hassan Bin Zubair
Punggawa Social Inquiry: Journal of Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Punggawa Social Inquiry 1(2) 2026 : September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67707/psi.v1i2.138

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This research explored the gender gap by examining how gender identities were destabilized within contemporary society. Faiqa Mansab’s This House of Clay and Water was analyzed through a textual approach. Selected data were extracted from significant passages of the novel and examined to understand the representation of gender identities. The study found that patriarchal structures and questions of empowerment were major factors contributing to gender inequality and identity destabilization. Its significance lay in reassessing existing boundaries and perceptions of gender in society. The research evaluated imbalances in gender relations and the instability of gender identities while also examining the portrayal of women by self-proclaimed feminists as a critical issue. It further investigated the relationship between identity and individual action and argued that social limitations imposed on identity shaped identity-based inequalities. Situated within post-feminist literary discourse, the study concluded that individuals across gender positions participated in sustaining the gender gap, affecting the lives and experiences of all genders.
Co-Authors Alishba Arooj Ayesha Quratulain Fatima Zahra Khadija Naqvi Nazia Bagga Rida Fatima Sabeen Fatima Tayaba Razzaq Umm e Kulsoom Zainab Rasool Zoha Asghar