The World of Sa‘adat Hasan Manto
The three axes through which I would examine the relationship between the literary imagination and the rendition of the history of Manto’s times, as it pours into the narrative of the Partition are: the axis of cultural stereotypes, the category of cultural visibility which these stereotypes impart to people, and the cultural power that they appear to acquire or negate through their visibility or invisibility, respectively.
We need a language beyond fixed categories of good and evil, of victims and victimizers, beyond an obsessive focus on violence as an act of insanity, barbarism, pathology.
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