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SOCIOCULTURAL AND HISTORICOPOLITICAL CRISIS IN HARRIS KHALIQUES BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR LOVE

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).30      10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).30      Published : Mar 2022

Socio-Cultural and Historico-Political Crisis in Harris Khalique's "Between You and Your Love"

Abstract

    This paper examines the socio-cultural and political crisis in Between You and Your Love (2012) by the Pakistani Anglophone poet Harris Khalique.Employing Greenblatt's concepts of new historicism as a theoretical framework, this research attempts to establish the embedment of the selected verses in Pakistani society. As the selected poetry collection has not been analyzed through the lens of new historicism, this research will also fill this gap. The study reveals that the people of Karachi have been facing ethnocultural violence, sectarian clashes, and native-migrant conflicts since the inception of Pakistan. The shrinking space for cultural expression and thriving terrorism due to politico-sectarian division on the one hand, and Pakistan's involvement in the War on terror in the context of 9/11 on the other hand, have pushed the country into a perpetual state of crisis. Khalique has given voice to such dire issues related to regional identities and marginalized communities who are either not represented or misrepresented in the officialnarrative.

    New Historicism, Sectarianism, Violence, Ethno-Cultural Conflicts

    (1) Maliha Sarfraz
    Associate Professor, Department of English, Government Graduate College (Women), Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Amara Javed
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College Women University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Muhammad Iqbal
    Lecturer, Department of English, Govt. Graduate College, Abdullahpur, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Sarfraz, M., Javed, A., & Iqbal, M. (2022). Socio-Cultural and Historico-Political Crisis in Harris Khalique's "Between You and Your Love". Global Language Review, VII(I), 373-385. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).30

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Sarfraz, Maliha, Amara Javed, and Muhammad Iqbal. 2022. "Socio-Cultural and Historico-Political Crisis in Harris Khalique's "Between You and Your Love"." Global Language Review, VII (I): 373-385 doi: 10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).30

HARVARD

    HARVARD : SARFRAZ, M., JAVED, A. & IQBAL, M. 2022. Socio-Cultural and Historico-Political Crisis in Harris Khalique's "Between You and Your Love". Global Language Review, VII, 373-385.

MHRA

    MHRA : Sarfraz, Maliha, Amara Javed, and Muhammad Iqbal. 2022. "Socio-Cultural and Historico-Political Crisis in Harris Khalique's "Between You and Your Love"." Global Language Review, VII: 373-385

MLA

    MLA : Sarfraz, Maliha, Amara Javed, and Muhammad Iqbal. "Socio-Cultural and Historico-Political Crisis in Harris Khalique's "Between You and Your Love"." Global Language Review, VII.I (2022): 373-385 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Sarfraz, Maliha, Javed, Amara, and Iqbal, Muhammad (2022), "Socio-Cultural and Historico-Political Crisis in Harris Khalique's "Between You and Your Love"", Global Language Review, VII (I), 373-385

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Sarfraz, Maliha, Amara Javed, and Muhammad Iqbal. "Socio-Cultural and Historico-Political Crisis in Harris Khalique's "Between You and Your Love"." Global Language Review VII, no. I (2022): 373-385. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).30