Journal of Research (Humanities) Volume LIV January 2018
Notes on Contributors
1. Walter Mignolo, Professor of Literature, Director, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University, USA.
2. Dr. Sohail Ahmad Saeed, Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur.
3. Dr. Saeed Ur Rehman, Associate Professor, Department of English University of Lahore, Lahore.
4. Dr. Neelam Jabeen, Research Associate, English Department, International Islamic University, Islamabad.
5. Dr. Muhammad Asif, Assistant Professor of English, Government College University, Faisalabad.
Dr. Muhammad Saeed Akhtar, Associate Professor of English, Rifah University, Faisalabad Campus.
6. Saasha Asif, M.Phil Scholar, Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Dr. Amra Raza, Chairperson, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
7. Fatima Syeda, Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Dr. Rizwan Akhtar, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
8. Syeda Momina Masood, Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Khurshid Alam, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
9. Aamer Shaheen, Lecturer in English, Government College University, Faisalabad. Sadia Qamar, Lecturer in English, Government College University, Faisalabad.
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Dr. Muhammad Islam, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language Teaching & Linguistics Institute of Education & Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
10. Sara Khan, Department of Humanities (English), COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore.
11. Kifayat Ullah Khan, PhD Scholar, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur.
12. Taimur Kayani, Lecturer, Gift University and PhD Scholar, Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. Dr. Arbaahya Ali Termizi, Associate Professor, Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia.
13. Sahar Hamid, M.Phil Scholar, Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Shahzeb Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
14. Sheheryar Khan, Assistant Professor of English, Govt Post Graduate College, Attock.
15. Dr. Ahmad Bilal, Assistant Professor, University College of Art & Design, University of the Punjab, Lahore.
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Journal of Research (Humanities) Volume LIV January 2018
Contents
1. Geopolitics of Sensing and Knowing: On (De)Coloniality, Border Thinking, and Epistemic Disobedience Walter Mignolo 01
2. Women Matter in Night of the Golden Butterfly Dr. Sohail Ahmad Saeed 17
3. Safe Scholarship Dr. Saeed Ur Rehman 33
4. Blindness Re-Visited: A Study of Uzma Aslam Khan’s The Geometry of God Dr. Neelam Jabeen 65
5. Paradigm Shift in Literary Studies: From Literary Criticism to Political Criticism Dr. Muhammad Asif & Dr. Muhammad Saeed Akhtar 76
6. The City as an Anthropomorphic Character in Aravind Adiga’s Fiction Saasha Asif & Dr. Amra Raza 90
7. Body, Power and Gendered Identity: Inscribed Bodies of Men in Partition Fiction Fatima Syeda & Dr. Rizwan Akhtar 121
8. “Itni Behuda Aurat!”: Lesbianism and Queer Spatial Politics in Angeline Malik’s Chewing Gum Syeda Momina Masood & Khurshid Alam 138
9. Obsessive ‘Westoxification’ Versus the Albatross of Fundamentalism and Love as Collateral Damage in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire Aamer Shaheen, Sadia Qamar, Dr. Muhammad Islam 150
10. Cultivating Virtual Feminist Violence in Alice-Madness Returns and Inferno: Analysis of Video Game Adaptations of Alice in Wonderland and Dante’s Inferno Sara Khan 168
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11. Counter Hegemonic Effects of Hybridity in Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet Kifayat Ullah Khan 183
12. Politics of Resistance against Capitalism in Transcultural Adaptations of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Ajoka Theatre in Pakistan Taimur Kayani, Dr. Arbaahya Ali Termizi 198
13. Beauty out of Chaos: A Parallel Study of Pakistan’s Trauma Art and Literature Sahar Hamid & Shahzeb Khan 228
14. The Woman Does not Exist: Lacan, Poe and Re-(W)righting the Feminine Sheheryar Khan 252
15. Filming Pakistan in Zero Budget Dr. Ahmad Bilal 266