Papers by Ayaz Muhammad Shah Shah
American Indian Literature as ‘Literature of Combat’
Pakistan Journal of Social Research
The present research paper aims to explore the ways in which literature and its celluloid stepchi... more The present research paper aims to explore the ways in which literature and its celluloid stepchild, the cinema, have been employed in combination with supposedly nonfictional venues to falsify the realities of Euro- American interaction with the continent’s indigenous people, both historically and in the contemporary setting. Its purpose is to shred away to some extent an elaborate shroud of misimpression and misinformation behind which the dreadful visage of Euro-American subjugation, occupation and massacre have been so prudently veiled. These all complications are accredited to ethnic and social deterioration which is outcome of intensified control of genocide, colonialism, enforced cultural and institutional accommodation, monetary reliance and racism.Keywords: Colonization, American Indian cultures, Collapse of social structures, Resistance literature, Native survival, Systematic marginalization.
Visual Sovereignty in Smoke Signals: A Critical Visual Analysis
Pakistan Journal of Social Research
The current research paper aims to see a film Smoke Signals by American Indian writer Sherman Ale... more The current research paper aims to see a film Smoke Signals by American Indian writer Sherman Alexie and director Chris Eyre as an attempt to define visual sovereignty. By applying Critical Visual Theory, the paper seeks to provide not just a close visual reading but also a broad study of American Indian indigenous film’s meanings with the understanding that the film functions as a politicized way of giving voice to the marginalized indigenous community. The film nullifies Hollywood representation of Natives by its celebration of Native storytelling. My contention is that the film is not a passive response to mainstream representation and geographical inaccuracies but rather a creation of indigenous reality in a media saturated world. The film shifts indigenous experience from a victimized stance to a strategic one. It has its visual effects which cannot be extricated from the social context in which it is produced. The analysis intends to delimit the bus scene that includes 10 fram...
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews
Purpose of the study: This study used an Anarchist framework to prove that Thinner than Skin by U... more Purpose of the study: This study used an Anarchist framework to prove that Thinner than Skin by Uzma Aslam Khan explores the causes of the peripheral communities' shared precariousness and their fight to sustain and conserve life in a world encroached upon by civilization. Methodology: Using Anarchist's (Manicardi, 2012; Zerzan, 2006, Bookchin, 2005) framework that believes that this materialistic worldview can be refuted only by unveiling the oppressive conditions of our modern existence, looking for remedy of people's unbearable misery is tantamount to finding a cure for these miseries. Further, the research is qualitative and analytical in nature, using close textual analysis. Main Findings: The paper finds that Khan highlights the precarious condition of peripheral communities residing in the Northern region of Pakistan. The analysis has proved that Khan's fiction, particularly her novel Thinner than Skin expresses her anarchist vision and shows her detest for mo...
Journal of Vegetation Science, 2013
Questions: In view of the predominance of clonality in aquatic plants and its likely role in plan... more Questions: In view of the predominance of clonality in aquatic plants and its likely role in plant fitness, we specifically asked whether or not clonality contributes to invasiveness of macrophytes. We also aimed to explore clonal trait diversity in alien aquatic plants and evaluate its implications in the context of species invasiveness.
Pakistan social sciences review, Jun 30, 2022
This study aims to analyze the novel Home Boy's critique of the neoliberal prison regime by drawi... more This study aims to analyze the novel Home Boy's critique of the neoliberal prison regime by drawing upon the concept of neoliberal prison regime and its policies of erasure theorized by Naomi Klein. According to Klein, the US neoliberal prison regime uses Cameron's shock therapy and brutal methods of interrogation to de-pattern and disorient the prisoners and to regress them into infantile state and then re-make them. However, these coercive mechanisms of erasure fail to reconstruct the prisoners; rather, these measures generate resistance among them. The research uses descriptive analytical and textual analysis method to interpret and analyze Home Boy and explores its critique of the various psychological methods of neoliberal prison regime. The findings show that the novel highlights that the post 9/11 violent policies of the US neoliberal prison regime regress the prisoners (i.e., Pakistani Muslim immigrants) into infantile state and shatter them physically and psychologically, but fail to remake them. Instead, these measures generate resistance among them. The study is helpful in investigating the depiction of neoliberal prison regime in art works, particularly, in contemporary Anglophone Pakistani novels.
Elementary & Complex Sequences Micro and Macro Sequences Amelioration Degradation Poten... more Elementary & Complex Sequences Micro and Macro Sequences Amelioration Degradation Potentiality/Objective Defined Process of Actualization Obstacle Objective Reached/Missed Good & Bad State. The present study is an attempt to investigate the narrative structure of the short story, The Necklace on the basis of Bremond's model, The Logic of Narrative Possibilities. The research has investigated the various functions of the elementary and complex sequences of The Necklace on the basis of this model and has explored that the main character fails to reach her objective because of her inability to take relevant action that is a process of non-actualization. The research uses interpretivist paradigm and narrative-structure analysis method to explore the various functions of Micro and Macro sequences of the short story, The Necklace. The study will be helpful for the students of literature who are interested in understanding and examining literary texts on the basis of the narrative model, The Logic of Narrative Possibilities.
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Papers by Ayaz Muhammad Shah Shah