http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/61 English Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:32:18 GMT 2026-06-23T20:32:18Z http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2879 Title: Narratives Across Media: Cultural and Structural Transformations in Literary Adaptations for Screen Authors: Khalid, Dr. Adeel; Toosy, Dr. Mazna Abstract: This study offers a comparative narratological analysis of three canonical literary texts and their respective screen adaptations: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (1993) and its BBC television adaptation (2020), Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) and its 2009 film version, and William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1606) reimagined as Maqbool (2004) by Vishal Bhardwaj. Drawing on classical narratology (Genette), transmedial narratology (Ryan, Wolf), and adaptation theory (Hutcheon, Stam), the study explores how narrative structures, focalization, character functions, and thematic concerns are transformed in the shift from print to screen. Through close reading and scene-by-scene comparative analysis, this study reveals both the compression and restructuring of plot and the shift from complex narratorial focalization to cinematic focalization strategies. While A Suitable Boy retains the socio-political texture of post-Partition India in a streamlined romantic narrative, Wuthering Heights sacrifices its Gothic layering and narrative complexity in favor of a linear romantic tragedy. Maqbool, by contrast, serves as a culturally situated reworking of Macbeth, replacing its metaphysical fatalism with a psychological, emotionally driven narrative rooted in the Mumbai underworld. The study finds that adaptation is not merely an act of translation, but a form of cultural and narrative negotiation shaped by medium-specific affordances, ideological repositioning, and local context. These adaptations highlight the dynamic interplay between narrative form, audience reception, and cultural meaning, contributing to evolving theories of transmedial storytelling. This research advances the understanding of adaptation as a multidimensional dialogue across media, genres, and cultures, with pedagogical and theoretical implications for literary, film, and cultural studies Description: N/A Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2879 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2872 Title: The Notion of the “Subaltern” and the Drone Victim Subjectivities in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction Authors: LIAQAT, QURRATULAEN Abstract: N/A Description: N/A Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2872 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2871 Title: Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography Authors: LIAQAT, QURRATULAEN; Mukhtar, Asia Abstract: The term ‘cultural memory’ signifies a shared memory of a group of people inhabiting a common geographical location with a mutual understanding of religion, culture, and society. While fiction, non-fiction, and fine arts are used for archiving, reconfiguring, and reflecting on the communal memories that are historically, culturally, and politically significant, artefacts such as paintings and photographs are used to keep accurate historical records. This study argues that Kamila Shamsie’s novel Kartography (2002) is a literary rendition that fictionalises the most relevant collective memories of post-Partition Pakistan by providing a new perspective on resolving the political, ethnic and sectarian issues in a postcolonial community. The textual analysis of the novel, in association with cultural memory theoretical perspectives, reveals that it is a ‘mythistorical’ text that mythologises the history of Pakistan. The characters have been personified and condensed into ethno-racial stereotypes. The city of Karachi has been reconstructed into a literary chronotope, and human relationships have been used as metaphors to revisit the political mistakes of the past. Hence, this text is not only an artistic mimesis of post-Partition Pakistan’s ‘cultural memory’, but also a promulgation of a cultural change required for a more cohesive and peaceful South Asian regional politics. Description: N/A Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2871 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2870 Title: SECULAR VERSUS SACRED POWER POLITICS: A FOUCAULDIAN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ORHAN PAMUK’S NOVEL SNOW Authors: LIAQAT, QURRATULAEN; Mukhtar, Asia Abstract: Creative works fabricate fictional worlds with the use of imagination but they also incorporate the figments of intricate realities around human beings. In this sense, these fictional narratives transcend the boundary of the field of Humanities and provide case studies to examine real life happenings which have implications for the discipline of Social Sciences. This paper contends that a Foucauldian discourse analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow (2004) illustrates the religious and political realities of contemporary world in a poetic manner. It can be read both as a literary piece of work and as a real life document to study the altercation between the sacred and secular forces in contemporary era. Currently, the global peace situation is suffering on the pretext of extremism emanating from both secular and sacred fundamentalism. Many countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Syria are facing militancy, terrorism and civil wars due to the tussle between these two forces. Fictional accounts of such real life realities, such as Pamuk’s novel Snow, provide valuable insights which help in comprehending these complex social phenomena Therefore, this is an interdisciplinary investigation which simultaneously conducts hermeneutic textual analysis of a literary text and also adds on to the field of politics of religion in contemporary milieu. The paper contends that prevailing ideology in the novel as well as of the contemporary world is neither religious fundamentalism nor secularism but the overriding discourse is the ‘power-play’ between these two gigantic forces which are manipulating masses all around the world. Description: N/A Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2870 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z