Racism and Alienation in Postcolonial Context: A Study of Tariq Rehman’s Short Story “BINGO”

Annals of social sciences and perspective Pub Date : 2024-03-29 DOI:10.52700/assap.v5i1.347

Uzma Munir, Mamoona Asif

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Referring to the phenomenon of racism and alienation in Pakistani literature, it is first advantageous to examine Pakistan’s Postcolonial democracy. Pakistan was colonized under British rule for 90 years and got its independent recognition in 1947. In 1971, the political and social conflicts fueled the armed forces to start a third war between India and Pakistan. Consequently, East Pakistan (i.e., present Bangladesh) formally separated from West Pakistan. This paper focuses on two major dimensions of postcolonialism i.e., Racism and Alienation, in Tariq Rehman’s short fiction Bingo. Postcolonialism is used as a theoretical framework to postulate the formation and fragmentation of East and West Pakistani nations in 1971. The conventional treatment of colonial hegemony by West Pakistan to East Pakistan is analyzed through the characters of Tajassur and Safeer. The outcome of the hegemonic scenario gives birth to some toxic substances of civil war such as brutality, mass destruction, deprivation, hatred, and family loss, which are couched through the diction and style opted by Tariq Rehman. This study is exclusive in a way that it elucidates the social and emotional estrangement of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) towards a minority (i.e., Bengalis) before the independence of Bangladesh. This work further examines the text to mediate all the scenarios of West Pakistan’s power shift from being under British raj to rule over Bengalis. To interpret the orientation and worthiness of data; thematic analysis is used as a more flexible yet influential tool; to discuss the hegemonic foundation after partition in Pakistan

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后殖民背景下的种族主义与异化：塔里克-雷曼的短篇小说《宾果》研究

谈到巴基斯坦文学中的种族主义和异化现象，首先应该考察一下巴基斯坦的后殖民民主制度。巴基斯坦在英国统治下被殖民统治了 90 年，1947 年获得独立承认。1971 年，政治和社会矛盾激化，印度和巴基斯坦武装力量发动了第三次战争。因此，东巴基斯坦（即现在的孟加拉国）正式从西巴基斯坦分离。本文重点探讨塔里克-雷曼的短篇小说《宾果》中后殖民主义的两个主要方面，即种族主义和异化。后殖民主义作为一个理论框架被用来推测 1971 年东西巴基斯坦国家的形成和分裂。通过 Tajassur 和 Safeer 这两个人物，分析了西巴基斯坦对东巴基斯坦殖民霸权的传统处理方式。塔里克-雷曼（Tariq Rehman）选择的修辞和风格使霸权的结果产生了一些内战的有毒物质，如残暴、大规模破坏、剥夺、仇恨和家庭损失。本研究的独特之处在于，它阐释了巴基斯坦军事学院（PMA）在孟加拉国独立前对少数民族（即孟加拉人）的社会和情感疏远。本作品通过对文本的进一步研究，对西巴基斯坦从英国统治下的权力转移到对孟加拉人的统治的所有情景进行了调解。为了解释数据的取向和价值，专题分析被用作一种更灵活但更有影响力的工具，以讨论巴基斯坦分治后的霸权基础。

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