AN INVESTIGATION OF NARRATIVE DISCOURSE OF TARIQ REHMAN’S SHORT STORY BINGO

The research endeavours to explore the various aspects of structural narratology in the short story of Tariq Rehman. It also explores how the structures in a text contributes to achieve reality. Gerard Genette’s Narrative Discourse Model provides theoretical framework in which textual references from the primary source of data have been analysed.  The research has been conducted by qualitative method as it does not involve any numerical value. The researcher has chosen one short story “Bingo” by Tariq Rehman. This story depicts the political ideas of the separation of East Pakistan (Bangladesh) in 1971. The analysis has focused the narrative instance, narrative time, frequency and narrative levels. The present research concludes that narrator is depicting his message to the readers through the structure of short story

غاڑہ ادبی صنف میں عورت کے جذبات کی ترجمانی : ایک جائزہ

Ghaara is a Pashto folklore genre, which is spoken solely in the kakar belt or region of Balochistan. It is deep-rooted in this region and very common among women. It is spoken on different occasions of life in happy and sad moments. In this genre a woman expresses her feelings and emotions, bitter and pleasant experiences of life in such words and delicacy which is a fine collection and reflection of beauty and decency. Ghaara has a unique and individualistic composition. Though it has the same sense and message like that of Pashto tappa but technically different. It consists of two lines, which are of eight syllable each. It has a clear meaning and understood by everyone without any confusion. Due to its clear meaning and message, it attracts the people towards itself. The people are very conscious and love to speak Ghaara, and this is the reason that this folkloric genre is dealt as the symbol of atheism and attractiveness in the Pashto folklore. But unfortunately, no considerable work has been done on this genre. Pashtoon women in this genre express their deep feelings and emotions in such a way which cannot be possible in usual life. This research study focusses technical composition of ghaara and also examines existing romantic feelings in the composition of ghaara among women in pashtoon society of Balochistan.