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Lyotardian Language Games: A Postmodernist Critique of Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

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  • Ayesha Ashraf Awan

    (Lecturer,Department of English, NUML Islamabad, Pakistan.)

  • Munawar Iqbal Ahmad

    (Professor,Department of English,Air University Islamabad, Pakistan.)

Abstract

This research seeks to analyze Our Lady of Alice Bhatti in the light of Lyotardian language games. The novel is written by Muhammad Hanif who is arenowned Pakistani novelist and writer. The novel, through language games, subverts the master narratives of nation, science, justice, culture, and faith. This research explores the role of language to interpret, understand and communicate in the postmodern world as in todays world every idea exists in the form of signs or language. This reading explores the novel through textual analysis, and it is qualitative and exploratory. It ends with the findings and recommendations for further research.

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  • Ayesha Ashraf Awan & Munawar Iqbal Ahmad, 2019. "Lyotardian Language Games: A Postmodernist Critique of Our Lady of Alice Bhatti," Global Regional Review, Humanity Only, vol. 4(4), pages 187-193, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aaw:grrjrn:v:4:y:2019:i:4:p:187-193
    DOI: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).21
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    Keywords

    Postmodernism; Metanarratives; Science; Enlightenment; Lyotard; Language Games;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
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