Mushtaq ur Rasool Bilal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5814387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mushtaq ur Rasool Bilal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mushtaq ur Rasool |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilal |
| SIGNATURE | BILAL M U R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Modern Languages |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Yes, I am Joseph Bhatti Choohra
This paper explores how Mohammed Hanif’s 2011 novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti challenges the construct of “Pak-ness” (purity), which is at the heart of the idea of Pakistan and Pakistani national identity. I argue that Joseph Bhatti, the father of the eponymous protagonist Alice Bhatti, is an intricate palimpsest of various historical, political, social, and cultural transformations in India (the Aryan invasion, the inauguration of the Varna syste…
Reading Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West as a World Novel
This paper investigates how Mohsin Hamid’s fiction challenges the so-called “natural law” of world literature according to which a work of literature has to be first born into a national literature before circulating into world literature. In addition, the paper shows how Hamid’s fiction and its reception strains the category of “national literature.” Building on the theoretical insights of Vittorio Coletti and Alexander Beecroft, I argue that Ha…
Reading new India
In Reading new India: post-millennial Indian fiction in English, E. Dawson Varughese presents an introductory account of contemporary Indian fiction in English and observes that ‘post-millennial fi
Our heroes were always androgynous’
In The Intimate Enemy 1 Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983). you discuss a form of colonisation which ‘releases force
Pakistan
British Muslim fictions
Pakistan
British Muslim fictions
Reading new India
In Reading new India: post-millennial Indian fiction in English, E. Dawson Varughese presents an introductory account of contemporary Indian fiction in English and observes that ‘post-millennial fi
Our heroes were always androgynous’
In The Intimate Enemy 1 Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983). you discuss a form of colonisation which ‘releases force
Reading Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West as a World Novel
This paper investigates how Mohsin Hamid’s fiction challenges the so-called “natural law” of world literature according to which a work of literature has to be first born into a national literature before circulating into world literature. In addition, the paper shows how Hamid’s fiction and its reception strains the category of “national literature.” Building on the theoretical insights of Vittorio Coletti and Alexander Beecroft, I argue that Ha…
“Yes, I am Joseph Bhatti Choohra
This paper explores how Mohammed Hanif’s 2011 novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti challenges the construct of “Pak-ness” (purity), which is at the heart of the idea of Pakistan and Pakistani national identity. I argue that Joseph Bhatti, the father of the eponymous protagonist Alice Bhatti, is an intricate palimpsest of various historical, political, social, and cultural transformations in India (the Aryan invasion, the inauguration of the Varna syste…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)