Fausses représentations sociales et leur rôle dans le développement de la violence : étude comparative de la littérature pakistanaise contemporaine en perspective avec le fondamentalisme, le néolibéralisme et le néocolonialisme
Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Islam, Muslims and Pakistan have been obsessively under discussion, particularly with negative portrayals, in the mainstream media and scholastic colloquy in the post 9/11 period. This research project is an attempt to represent some of the misrepresentations which are familiarized along with political lines for making an unknown a known. The decolonised representation of such misrepresentations is needed to understand this phenomenon and the ideologies working behind the scenes for popularizing these unfamiliar representations of/by fundamentalism and fundamentalists in comparison with misrepresentations of/by liberalism and liberals. Thus, the thesis is divided into three sections; a) Fundamentals of Islam and Fundamentalism, b) Neoliberalism and Neo-global colonialism, and c) Social Misrepresentations which are breeding psychological trauma for humanity in the post 9/11 era. This project highlights the variant aspects of the reluctance of fundamentalism in post-postcolonial contemporary Pakistani literature, both in English and Urdu, analysing comparatively the similarities and variances, both exclusive and inclusive, of its extensive canvas The contemporary world of English Literature in Pakistan and the different approaches provide material for examining who is who and what is what, in order to determine the underlying motives at work behind the scenes, especially the schools of thought encouraging extremism of all kinds, working against peace and harmony in favor of violence and terrorism. Literature, in this context, is a mouthpiece of the Age. We will be analysing the social misrepresentations using Moscovici’s theories of social representations which are used to familiarise the unfamiliar or defamiliarize the familiar. Similarly, Roy’s theory of facts in fiction is utilised for analysing contemporary Pakistani literature (examples are taken from Mohsin Hamid’s and UmairaAhmed's contributions) as a mouthpiece of the twenty-first century while examining Chomskian views of neocolonialism. Meanwhile, fundamentalism or Islamism will be inspected under the theoretical lens of la ikraha fid Deen, presented in the Holy Quran and Hadith. Hopefully, the research would be able to provide a comprehensive, productive groundwork that will be helpful to spread a peaceful message with a moderate approach to life, against extremism.
Author: Naqvi, Syeda Sughra
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3175632072