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A NEW HISTORICIST CRITIQUE OF INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE IN AATIRS STRAGGLING THROUGH FIRE AN ANTHOLOGY OF PROEMISTRY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-III).08      10.31703/glr.2022(VII-III).08      Published : Sep 2022

A New Historicist Critique of Institutional Failure in Aatir's Straggling Through Fire: An Anthology of Proemistry

Abstract

    Straggling through Fire is the creative critique of the deterioration of democratic socio-political institutions of Pakistan. Contemporary socio-cultural and political circumstances reflect the plight and sufferings of the masses. They are deprived of their fundamental human rights. New historicism propounds the idea of studying a text within its context. It comprehends literature in its socio-cultural and political context. This study is supported by the theoretical perspectives of Foucault, Greenblatt, and Montrose. Foucault’s concepts of power, subject, knowledge, discourse and the relationship between text, author and reader weave the fabric of the research. Greenblatt’s concept of resonance and wonder and Montrose’ concept of ‘historicity of text’ and ‘textuality of history’ help locate the issues responsible for institutional failure and social upheavals. The present work finds out that public suffers due to the malperformance and failure of democratic socio-political institutions.

    Pakistani English Poetry, New Historicism, Institutional Failure, Proemistry

    (1) Amna
    Honorary Lecturer in English, Government Graduate College for Women Samanabad, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Nageen Riaz
    M. Phil Scholar, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Muhammad Ijaz
    Lecturer in English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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