Prose in Pakistani literature.pptx

Prose in Pakistani literature.pptx

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  Prose in Pakistaniliterature MuDasir 050
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  Biographies • Feroz khanNoon from Memory (1966) • Shaista Ikramul Jah from Purdah to Parliament (1963) • Politicians, Generals and other men are more prominent in writing biographies than the writers
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  Prose of Humorby Maya Jamil • History of humorous prose from Mohammad Ali & Shaukat Ali’s famous paper “Comrade” (1911 in Delhi). • Phantom figures (Articles I.C.S Commissioner whom they called minor deity. • Anwar Mooraj, Omar Kureishi and Mr. Kayani
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  Khalid Hasan • Usedlaughter as a safety valve in order to retain sanity • A Mug’s Came (1968) • The Crocodiles are Here to Swim (1970) • Scorecard (1984) • Give us back our Onions (1985) • All of these are the Essays published in newspaper, but he had also published them as a book • “The Queen’s English, Whither English” Point out the defects of Pakistani English. And in “The Queen’s English, Local Style” gave the remedies.
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  Khwaja Ahmad Abbas •Not a humorist • Travelogue outside India (1938): The world which he visited especially The Bombay chronicle • Opposes Japnese glamorization and Hitler’s jingoism • Condemned colonial oppression and the oppression by Nazi’s to the Jews
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  Omar Kureishi • Cricketcommentator, lives in Karachi • Writer for Karachi newspaper The Dawn and The Star • His first prose book was Black Moods (deals with the life of Karachi during 15s) • Second book was Out to Lunch (covers years between 1956 to 1958) • Khalid Hasan’s work “Give me Omar Kureishi Any Time” • His essay Common man he tries to find that common man for whom our Politicians claim to be laboring • The Rain and For The People
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  Anwar Mooraj • Sand,Cacti and People (1960) shows his contribution in English papers • Knows German also • His humor depends upon the events not on the situation
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  Haleem Abdul Aziz •Nothing in particular & Nothing in Earnest (1967), Solo (1968),O Bartender (1968), The Decayed (1968), Pop Writing (1975) many others • He uses Pakistani slangs in his English works and touch the taboo topics to discuss like sex • “A lady with a principle is like a lady with a stick”
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  Justice Malik RustumKayani • Gave speeches which were enjoyed enormously by upper middle class • These speeches have been reproduced in four books: • Not the Whole Truth (1962) • Half Truths (1966) • Some More Truths (1971) • A Judge May Laugh (1961) • President of West Pakistan Association • Speak in favor of independence of Judiciary when Ayyub Khan became the dictator