‘Without him life loomed like a void’-

Romance, Agency and the Play of Imagination in Qaisra Shahraz’s The Holy Woman

Dr Abu-Bakar Ali

Date: 7 March 2013Time: 5:30 PM

Finishes: 7 March 2013Time: 7:00 PM

Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: G51

Type of Event: Seminar

Series: CSP Seminar Programme

Abstract

The discourse of romance has become synonymous with popular, mass media culture in Pakistan and shaped its many diverse forms, from iconic television drama serials to novels that are part of a wider literary history.

This paper explores how the genre of romance can potentially serve as a site on which Pakistani women writers refashion and reconfigure their role in their country’s nationalist imaginary.

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