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1. Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan 2. Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan 3. Lecturer, Department of English Literature, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan PAPER INFO ABSTRACT Received: June 12, 2020 Accepted: September 05, 2020 Online: September 30, 2020 The paper reads closely Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s The Merman and the Book of Power: A Qissa (2019) as an adamantly conceived a cross between Romance/Dastan and the Novel genre. The paper explores MAF’s claim regarding the creative shortcomings of Novel genre vis-à-vis its inadequacy to cater to the needs of exploiting fantastic imagination and scrutinizes his Qissa for its model praxis in incorporating Romance/Dastan narrative strategies as a specific case of genre re-visitation. Utilizing the key term of ‘Romance’ (as in Western critical theory) and ‘Dastan’ (as in Urdu critical theory) as the theoretic perspective to help read the target text the paper concludes that MAF deliberates the (re)familiarization of the long lost narrative strategies as utilized in Romance/Dastan to the contemporary Novel genre neither debunking it nor devaluing it albeit expanding the scope of narrative fictions.

Pakistani Anglophone Novel and Romance/ Dastan Narrative Strategies: Farooqi's‘Qissa-Novel’ as a Case of Genre Re-visitation