| Autor: |
Resshid, Zakia, Raza, Amra |
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Journal of Research in Humanities; Jan2019, Vol. 55, p95-109, 15p |
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Chronotope is a word given to timespace by Mikhail Bakhtin in his book The Dialogic Imagination (1938). There he explains that in a novel chronotopes serve as those literary tools which show time and its visible effects on the spatial expanses (84). He adds that, chronotopes are characterised as literary temporal and spatial indicators that are artistically visible and are intrinsically fused as a whole (84). The present paper uses Bakhtin's Chronotopic study of intrinsic interconnectedness of timespace as a framework to assimilate causes of violence and discontent on the geographical spaces of Peshawar and Afghanistan in Nadeem Aslam's The Blindman's Garden (2013) during the Post 9/11 terrorist attack. These countries represent spatially colonized nations where the regulation of colonial time period had disempowered the indigenous people from their communal spatial experiences. Hitherto, the collision and intersection of polar social, political and cultural forces caused due to the impact of war time on the spatial boundaries of these countries leave the native people in an emptied sense of disorientation. Hence, Bakhtin's concept of chronotopic analysis grants permission to expose the violence and political conflicts within these colonized nations and people embossed through weft of time; which primarily have been infused into the works of Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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