A Specter Is Haunting Pakistan! : Nationalism in Pakistan’s Horror Pulp Fiction

IF 0.6 3区社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.15119/00003732

Jürgen Schaflechner

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Abstract

Urdu digests have a long history in Pakistan, and their contents include detective tales, science fiction, and love stories. The horror genre—found for example in magazines such as Khaufnak Digest, Sacci Kahani, or Dar Digest—is particularly intriguing, as the fantastic and the uncanny yield a canvas for stereotypes and ideologies. Horror stories are one way to represent what is evil in a society, as well as indicating which heroes are capable of countering these threatening influences. This article analyzes recent Urdu horror stories as they are found in the monthly magazine Dar Digest and reveals how these tales contribute to the villainization of Hindus in today’s Pakistan.

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一个幽灵正在困扰巴基斯坦!:巴基斯坦恐怖低俗小说中的民族主义

乌尔都语文摘在巴基斯坦有着悠久的历史，其内容包括侦探小说、科幻小说和爱情故事。恐怖题材——比如在《khaffnak Digest》、《Sacci Kahani》或《Dar Digest》等杂志上——特别吸引人，因为奇幻和不可思议为刻板印象和意识形态提供了画布。恐怖故事是一种表现社会邪恶的方式，也表明哪些英雄有能力对抗这些威胁的影响。这篇文章分析了最近在月刊《Dar Digest》上发现的乌尔都语恐怖故事，揭示了这些故事是如何导致印度教徒在今天的巴基斯坦被妖魔化的。

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Asian Ethnology Multiple-

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1.10

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30 weeks

期刊介绍： Asian Ethnology (ISSN 1882–6865) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal registered as an Open Access Journal with all the contents freely downloadable. Please read the information on our open access and copyright policies. A list of monographs that were published under the journal''s former names, Folklore Studies and Asian Folklore Studies, appear here. Asian Ethnology is dedicated to the promotion of scholarly research on the peoples and cultures of Asia. It began in China as Folklore Studies in 1942 and later moved to Japan where its name was changed to Asian Folklore Studies. It is edited and published at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, with the cooperation of Boston University. Asian Ethnology seeks to deepen understanding and further the pursuit of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Asia. We wish to facilitate intellectual exchange between Asia and the rest of the world, and particularly welcome submissions from scholars based in Asia. The journal presents formal essays and analyses, research reports, and critical book reviews relating to a wide range of topical categories, including: -narratives, performances, and other forms of cultural representation -popular religious concepts -vernacular approaches to health and healing -local ecological/environmental knowledge -collective memory and uses of the past -cultural transformations in diaspora -transnational flows -material culture -museology -visual culture