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Rida Fatima
Superior College Mian Channu

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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
Publisher : Punggawa Legacy Center

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.
Co-Authors Hassan Bin Zubair