NEGOTIATING PARTITION, DIASPORA, AND OTHERNESS: A POSTCOLONIAL STUDY OF PAKISTANI ENGLISH FICTION

Abstract

The development of Pakistani English fiction follows the political and cultural changes in the country, beginning with Partition, continuing with diaspora, and then the post-9/11 global perceptions. Three novels are selected which represent various historical periods of Pakistan. The study applies an amalgamated postcolonial framework based on the theories of Ngugi wa Thiong, Homi Bhabha and Edward. It exemplifies the way in which novelists are reacting to the prevailing political situations of their respective times and how their texts address political and cultural issues. Across the corpus, the language moves from nationalist rhetoric to hybrid codes and then to a worldwide suspicion. As a whole, the pattern sets Pakistani fiction beside its history and treats each text as a record of resistance, hybridity, and global identity within a postcolonial perspective.