Open AccessLyotardian Language Games: A Postmodernist Critique of Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Author(s) -
Ayesha Ashraf Awan,
Munawar Iqbal Ahmad
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
global regional review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-7030
pISSN - 2616-955X
DOI - 10.31703/grr.2019(iv-iv).21
Subject(s) - alice (programming language) , narrative , postmodernism , faith , reading (process) , sociology , exploratory research , psychology , linguistics , literature , epistemology , history , art , anthropology , philosophy , art history
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.