The “Mumbai Riots” and the Play of Literary Strategies: A Reading of Rahman Abbas’s Rohzin
The present paper traces reflections of the 1992-3 Mumbai Riots in Rahman Abbas’s 2016 Indian Urdu novel Rohzin by using instruments of literary criticism. While this novel is overtly a story about the love of two young people, it is also a profoundly political novel bearing on a number of problems...
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| Main Author: | Almuth Degener |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad
2021-06-01
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| Series: | NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry |
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| Online Access: | https://jci.numl.edu.pk/index.php/jci/article/view/92 |
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