PAKISTANI LITERATURE

Submitted To:
Ma’am Zahra Abassi

Submitted By:
Asad
 INSIDES
Key Terms of How To Get Filthy Rich in
Salient Features Rising Asia
Post-Colonialist Lit.

• Religious Impacts • Post-Colonialism

• Thematic Concept
• Political Scenario • Ambivalence
• Family & Caste System • Diaspora • Characters
• Values • Hegemony
• A Self-help book
• Economical Issues • Hybridity
• Female Class • Identity
• Marriage and Death • Mimicry
• Mixed Society • Other
• Subaltern
RELIGIOUS ELEMENT & IMPACTS

• Islamic Country
• No one can invade the boundaries of Islam
• Stand-point of Islam
• Literature Depicts Islamic: Values, Culture & Civilization
• Versatility of Religions, so as writings.
• Ice Candy Man
• My Son, The Fanatic
• Religious Customs, Rituals, festivals “Hold due share in Literature”
POLITICAL SCENARIO

• Intra-Pakistan clashes
• Economy
• Language
• Caste
• Provincialism etc.

• Divide and Rule

• Corruption
• “How to get filthy rich in Rising Asia” & “Ice Candy Man”
FAMILY STRUCTURE & CASTE SYSTEM

• Patriarchal Society
• Joint Family System
• “Wedding in the Flood”

• People are judged by Caste

• High-born does not marry a low-born

VALUES

• Muslims Dominant Society

• Islamic Values

• How to get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

• Non-Muslims have own Values

• PEN MEN present it from different sights

ECONOMICAL ISSUES

• Inequity distribution of wealth

• One has lot and Other starve to death

• Have and Have-Nots

• Landlords, Aristocrats, Industrialists, Capitalists

• “Murder of Aziz Khan”
FEMALE CLASS

• Subordinate

• Mashriqui Orat

• Pictured as:

• Weak, humble and Indecisive

• She is also depicted as “Initiative taker” and “Victimizer”

• Mother of “You”

• Model Pretty Girl

• My Son, the Fanatic: Mother’s Role

MARRIAGE AND DEATH

• Happy and Tragic

• Newly Weds

• Nikah and Valima

• Islamic Values

• “Wedding in the Flood”

• Taufiq Rafat
MIXED SOCIETY

• Social Diversity

• Religious Diversity

• Male Dominancy

• Female Uprising as “Prominent Subjects”

POST - COLONIALISM

• European Nations

• Third-World

• Colonizer

• Colonized

• Black Skin White Mask

• Murder of Aziz Khan

AMBIVALENCE

• Ambiguous Way of Regarding One and Another

• Inferior yet Other

• Lucky yet Corrupt

• Sense of BLESSING AND CURSE

“of a class of interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern – a class of persons
Indian in blood and color but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect”
“Black Skin White Mask” By Frantz Fanon
DIASPORA

• Voluntary or enforced migration of peoples from their native homelands

• Train to Pakistan
HEGEMONY

• Power of the ruling class to convince other classes

• their interests are the interests of all

• The Murder of Aziz Khan

IDENTITY

• The way in which an individual and/or group defines itself

• Identity is important to self-concept, social mores, and national understanding

• My Son The Fanatic

MIMICRY

• The means by which the colonized adapt the culture of Colonizers

• Black Skin White Mask

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist

OTHER

• Social or psychological ways

• one group excludes or marginalizes another group

• Black Skin White Mask

SUBALTERN

• Lower or Colonized classes who have little access to their own means of
expression and are thus dependent upon the language and methods of the
ruling class to express themselves.

• Black Skin White Mask

• Murder Of Aziz Khan

SUBALTERN

• Lower or Colonized classes who have little access to their own means of
expression and are thus dependent upon the language and methods of the
ruling class to express themselves.

• Black Skin White Mask

• Murder Of Aziz Khan

How to get filthy rich
in Rising Asia

1. Self Help Book & Title

2. Thematic Concept
3. Characters
SELF HELP

• 12 Rules Journey towards becoming filthy RICH.

• 9 Rules
• That make you RICH

• Rest three give you A Reality Touch Advice

• Quick-Rich Book
SELF HELP
• Our man has put country life behind him.

• Chapter 2: Get an Education (which he does, both in school and on the street).

• Chapter 3: Don't Fall in Love (advice he doesn't exactly follow, thus changing his

life forever).

• Chapter 4: Avoid Idealists (he manages this OK).

• Chapter 5: Learn from a Master (oh, yes, he does!).

• Chapter 6: Work for Yourself ( Start a bottle-water business)

SELF HELP

• Chapter 7: Be Prepared to use Violence (which he does, but who comes in his way)

• Chapter 8: Befriend a Bureaucrat ( Get benefits, when needed )

• Chapter 9: Patronize the Artists of War ( Information is Power)

• Chapter 10: Dance with Debt (Another try to flourish the business in the Eye of Luck).

• Chapter 11: Focus on The Fundamentals (he does!).

• Chapter 12: Have an Exit Strategy

THEMATIC CONCEPT

• Identity Conflicts

• Love

• Ambition

• Social Issues

• Class Conflict
IDENTITY CONFLICTS

• You wanted to make his Place

• “You” Discover more

LOVE

• Pretty Girl
• Enduring Relationship

• Family Dynamics
• Relationship of You

• You must not waste your one life

AMBITION

• Move to City

• Get an Education

• Business becomes his new Religion

SOCIAL ISSUES

• Poverty

• One can’t grow in Cruel New World

• Unemployment

• Security risks

• Corruption

• Bribery

• Nepotism
CLASS CONFLICT

• Real gloomy picture of a poor struggling man

• born poor, grown poor, and died poor

• “You” life depends on elite class.

• A man can be filthy rich by moral decay

• An account of modern life

CHARACTERS
YOU

• Protagonist

• Third Born Child

• Born Poor

• Ambitious

• Wants to achieve “American Dream”

• Unconditional Love for Pretty Girl

WIFE

• Subordinate

• Manages Household

• Loving and Caring

• Extrovert

• Marriage Falls apart due to indifferences

MOTHER

• Uneducated

• Working to feed children

• Suffers a lot for all children’s

• Thinks You as their “HERO CHILD”

• Dies due to Cancer

SISTER

• Uneducated

• Cleaning Girl

• Caring towards Brothers

• Her future is “MARRIAGE”

• Old Man,

• Refuses to go back to Village quit Boldly

PRETTY GIRL

• Came from Slums

• Working Woman in Salon

• Independent

• All Beautiful

• Model and Rich

• Meditation of Love