Dr. Zia Ahmed

As the title suggests, the short novel is about the contribution of Three Guineas to a cause which becomes obvious when we go down into the text that it is by women of England to prevent war. Woolf immediately stresses that to do this, women may need “some knowledge of politics, of international relations, of […]

Since the introduction of postcolonial theory in 1970s and the concept of orientalism, impinged upon binary oppositions, multiple allegorical writings have appeared to voice the weak and the powerful in multiple ways. But the best has been contributed by Roy in her award-winning novel The God of Small Things creating an analogy of the big […]

African writers have been portraying their culture, people and land in a befitting manner in their postcolonial fiction and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is a unique text because it traces the process of White colonialism, the way it dominated the Igbo People’s land. Achebe’s fiction is far more superior in its representation of his people […]

Mohanty argues that the women of third world are mostly deemed as non-progressive and traditionally but a few of them could be revolutionary as well especially if the country is passing through any state of war. The latter category of women has been termed as the nation maker by the critics like Sutherland. He believes […]

The writers of literature have been using multi-narrative in their stories within certain limits of time and space but most narratives were done through one narrator of the story. Similarly, the narrations have been sometime in first person, sometime in 2nd person and most of the time it has been 3rd person narrative. A cursory […]

The globalised world affords many opportunities to the human being for mobility throughout the world and so, a large number of people have been found moving towards the much desired and cherished places to make their future better and comfortable. The situation of mobility of human being across the globe has been termed by Mohsin […]

Althusser provides frame work in Marxian sense believing that State becomes oppressive with the use of its powerful apparatuses. According to him there are two major types of state apparatuses. First is the type of Repressive state apparatus which includes Government, police, Administration, Special Institutions, Judiciary and Prison Houses. Second type of state apparatus, termed […]

The higher education institutions are bent upon raising their number of admissions in their established disciplines as well as in the newly established ones in order to meet the financial targets. This has put to doubt the maintenance of minimum quality of education, training and competency of the students and has added fuel to fire […]

Silence is the result of the failure of the progress of mankind based on Internet technology and our over dependence on it and as a result ignoring and discarding totally the use of natural process. It was predicted that no sooner any satellite fails in its communications, the machines depending on it for its communication […]

Bakhtin is emphatic that a novel is the best genre of literature as it affords all possibilities which probably epic or drama could ill afford and so its appeal is at a far wider level as compared to other genre of literature. Moreover, its world of enormous possibilities makes it easier for novel to reach […]