Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This study examines the postcolonial implications in Nadeem Aslam’s Season of the Rainbirds (2007). It explores the aftermaths of postcolonialism and its enduring impacts on culture, religion, and language within Pakistani society. The study adopts a postcolonial lens, reflecting the enduring influence of colonial legacies on identities, religious dynamics, and social structures. It also examines the religious persecution of minorities and depicts the social and political reality in Pakistan, where religion serves as an instrument of tyranny. Furthermore, English serves as an emblem of privilege, highlighting the enduring effects of linguistic imperialism as the novel depicts the power dynamics between indigenous and colonial languages. This article contends that these themes depict how the postcolonial condition in the novel reflects overarching issues of identity, marginalization, and power dynamics that endure long after independence.
Authors: Azhar Shah, Muhammad Sheraz Khan Khattak
Institution: Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403378661