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Dr. Ali Usman Saleem
Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Hysteric Subject between the Imaginary and Symbolic Orders: A Lacanian Critique of Curfewed Night Sabir Hussain; Dr. Ali Usman Saleem
Journal of Management Practices, Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 6 No. 5: JMPHSS
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33152/jmphss-6.5.7

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This research attempts to unearth the contrasting discourses that constitute the subjectivity in Basharat Peer’s memoir. By highlighting the circulation of these multiple discourses, the research further endeavours to trace the resistance in the subject's agency. These discourses, often resorting to violent modes of disciplining, relentlessly struggle to configure the subject. However, with its potential for resistance, the subject's agency subverts all these hegemonic configurations. Drawing upon Lacan's imagery and symbolic orders along with Lacanian discourses: master's discourse, university's discourse, analyst's discourse, and hysteric's discourse, this paper reads the incidents as symptomatic of a problem beyond their literal signification. This paper concludes that the Kashmiri subject becomes a battleground for these contradictory forces: the military and the militants. However, their modes of fashioning and disciplining the subject go awry with the agency's resistance.
Negotiations Between the Center and the Margin: Hanif’s Red Birds as a Transcultural Contact Zone Muddassar Ali; Dr. Ali Usman Saleem
Journal of Management Practices, Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 8 No. 2: JMPHSS
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33152/jmphss-8.2.5

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Transculturation utilizes the contact zone as a productive literary and analytical space in which a third-world writer negotiates between Western and non-Western sensibilities, appropriates Western materials for self-representations, and problematizes Euro-American hegemonic discourses. This paper employs Pratt’s ideas of contact zone and transculturation as its theoretical framework to examine how Hanif adopts transculturation as the medium for negotiation, appropriation, and transformation in Red Birds to challenge Eurocentrism and to question the binary of western self and Muslim other in backdrops of 9/11 and War on Terror. This qualitative research primarily analyzes Red Birds as a transcultural negotiation between American and Muslim subjects. It is found that Hanif, as a transcultural fiction writer, appropriates postmodern rejection of hegemonic metanarratives for constructing self-representations to speak back to the west from the position of marginality. By employing Belsey’s proposed research method of textual analysis, we read Red Birds as a contact zone and establish that Hanif inverts the conflict of War on Terror between the Americans and the Muslims into a contact zone to imagine the possibilities of their coexistence. The paper foregrounds the disruption of Eurocentric discourses of global security and Western/Muslim binary to suggest that Pakistani Anglophone fiction has moved beyond the constraints of 9/11 discourses.
Co-Authors Muddassar Ali Sabir Hussain