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IRONIC NOSTALGIC PAKISTANI FAMILY SYSTEM IN HAIDERS HOW IT HAPPENED POSTMODERN ANALYSIS

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).16      10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).16      Published : Mar 2021

Ironic Nostalgic Pakistani Family System in Haider's How It Happened: Postmodern Analysis

Abstract

    This article presents a close reading of the ironic present and nostalgic nature of the Pakistani family system through a postmodern lens. Haider's How it happened depict irony and nostalgia in a new and postmodern manner. This novel exposes the ironized culture of the Pakistani family system and the nostalgic nature of societal relationships. This is descriptive research, and data is analyzed theoretically. The theoretical framework of this research is based upon the theory of irony and nostalgia in term of postmodernism, by Linda Hutcheon in her dialogical article Irony, Nostalgia, and Postmodernism: A Dialogue, where two terms irony and nostalgia has been treated with a new and unique perspective. This research investigates how our concepts and views about different things in life get change with the passage of time. This research article concludes that the ostentatious rejection of the past is not possible; nostalgia can consciously be denied but deeply felt.

    Ironic Present, Nostalgic Past, Postmodern, Conceived Realities, Family System

    (1) Khadija Majeed
    Lecturer, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Aniqa Rashid
    Assistant professor, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Samina Ali Asghar
    Lecturer, Department of English, University of Education, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Majeed, K., Rashid, A., & Asghar, S. A. (2021). Ironic Nostalgic Pakistani Family System in Haider's How It Happened: Postmodern Analysis. Global Language Review, VI(I), 143-155. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).16

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Majeed, Khadija, Aniqa Rashid, and Samina Ali Asghar. 2021. "Ironic Nostalgic Pakistani Family System in Haider's How It Happened: Postmodern Analysis." Global Language Review, VI (I): 143-155 doi: 10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).16

HARVARD

    HARVARD : MAJEED, K., RASHID, A. & ASGHAR, S. A. 2021. Ironic Nostalgic Pakistani Family System in Haider's How It Happened: Postmodern Analysis. Global Language Review, VI, 143-155.

MHRA

    MHRA : Majeed, Khadija, Aniqa Rashid, and Samina Ali Asghar. 2021. "Ironic Nostalgic Pakistani Family System in Haider's How It Happened: Postmodern Analysis." Global Language Review, VI: 143-155

MLA

    MLA : Majeed, Khadija, Aniqa Rashid, and Samina Ali Asghar. "Ironic Nostalgic Pakistani Family System in Haider's How It Happened: Postmodern Analysis." Global Language Review, VI.I (2021): 143-155 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Majeed, Khadija, Rashid, Aniqa, and Asghar, Samina Ali (2021), "Ironic Nostalgic Pakistani Family System in Haider's How It Happened: Postmodern Analysis", Global Language Review, VI (I), 143-155

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Majeed, Khadija, Aniqa Rashid, and Samina Ali Asghar. "Ironic Nostalgic Pakistani Family System in Haider's How It Happened: Postmodern Analysis." Global Language Review VI, no. I (2021): 143-155. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).16