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

Abstract

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