EXPLORING POLITICALLY HISTORIC ALLEGORY IN MOHSIN HAMID’S MOTH SMOKE

Authors

  • Farhat Nawaz Department of English, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology Havelian Pakistan.
  • Seema Safeer Department of Linguistics the University of Haripur, Haripur Pakistan
  • Zeeshan Shahjehan Subject Specialist (English)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v5i02.1102

Abstract

The present research paper has analyzed Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke by treating history of India and Pakistan allegorically. Through the selected characters the writer has made satire on the Mughal Empire as well as the political leaders of the time who have ruined the resources of country and subjugated people for the celebration of their power. The writer discusses the global issues through the discussion of local issues in the selected novel. This qualitative research based on anticolonial literary theory as counter narrative. The study concluded that history of colonization and subjugation transfers from foreign to local agents who prove to be worse than the actual colonizers.

Keywords.  History, politics, allegory, colonial.

Author Biographies

Farhat Nawaz , Department of English, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology Havelian Pakistan.

Lecturer

Seema Safeer, Department of Linguistics the University of Haripur, Haripur Pakistan

M.Phil Scholar

Additional Files

Published

2023-05-24

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 02 (2023): Pakistan Journal of Social Research (PJSR)

Section

Research Article

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