POSTCOLONIAL STUDY OF MANTO’S SHORT STORY- MOZAIL
A BI-LINGUAL ANALYSIS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF
Homi K. Bhabha Postcolonial Theory of Mimicry, Ambivalence and Hybridity
Prof.Dr.Freeha Nighat 1 , Dr.Farhat Jabeen Virk 2 ,Dr.Fouzia Sahar Malik 3
- Professor Dr. Freeha Nighat, Principal GDCW Dhoke Ellahi Buksh, Rawalpindi
- Dr. Farhat Jabeen Virk, Associate Professor/Chairperson, Department of UrduZuban-O-Adab, Fatima Jinnah Women University Rawalpindi. Pakistan
- Dr.Fouzia Sahar Malik, F.G.Post Graduate College forWomen, Cantt,Rawalpindi,Pakistan
Corresponding Author: Dr. Farhat Jabeen Virk
Abstract: Saadat Hassan Manto is one of the greatest Urdu short story writer of the twentieth century in the Indo Pakistan sub-continent. Born in the colonial period, his literary pursuits reflect the culture, customs, language and traditions of the prevalent society. Manto has the singular honour of being renowned short story writer of colonial as well as postcolonial period. Homi K. Bhabha is a well-known postcolonial theorist and has extensively dilated his concepts of Mimicry, Ambivalence and Hybridity etc. Manto’s famous short story Mozail has been previously analyzed from diverse and multiple angles of socio-economic, cultural, historical, identity aspects etc. In this article an endeavour has been made to analyze this short story under the lens of theory of Bhabha’s concepts of Mimicry, Ambivalence and Hybridity thus exploring yet another dimension of Manto’s literary works. This is a new perspective of critique from Bhabha’s theory and bi-lingual analysis which further enhances significance of this article.
Keywords: Manto, postcolonial, colonizers’ dress, language, human values, social and cultural aspects