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NEOORIENTALIST GAMBITS IN SOUTH ASIAN GLOBAL GAME IN ASLAMS THE BLIND MANS GARDEN

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-II).06      10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-II).06      Published : Jun 2021

Neo-Orientalist Gambits in South Asian Global Game in Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden

Abstract

    This study focuses on the great global game of chess of Neoimperialist played in South Asia. It explores that to fetch global capitalist designs, global forces have devised a global Neo-Orientalist game of chess in three perspectives, i.e. economic, cultural and political, for three-level players, i.e. great players, little players and domestic players. The economic ventures urge the need to divide the South Asian Muslims into good and bad categories through neo-orientalist cultural and political gambits, as is revealed from Nadeem Aslam's 'The Blind Man's Garden' (2013) that critiques the hegemony of Neo-imperialist global forces working purely for their global designs in the region. It exposes economic, political, cultural and strategic motives behind two basic goals: the establishment of neo-imperialism through the elimination of borders for neo-liberalist gains by homogenizing world culture; and the eradication of global terrorism for which war has already been launched there.

    (1) Atta-ul-Mustafa
    Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities & Linguistics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Amara Javed
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College Woman University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Sahar Javaid
    Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Atta-ul-Mustafa., Javed, A., & Javaid, S. (2021). Neo-Orientalist Gambits in South Asian Global Game in Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden. Global Social Sciences Review, VI(II), 54-63. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-II).06

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Atta-ul-Mustafa, , Amara Javed, and Sahar Javaid. 2021. "Neo-Orientalist Gambits in South Asian Global Game in Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden." Global Social Sciences Review, VI (II): 54-63 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-II).06

HARVARD

    HARVARD : ATTA-UL-MUSTAFA., JAVED, A. & JAVAID, S. 2021. Neo-Orientalist Gambits in South Asian Global Game in Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden. Global Social Sciences Review, VI, 54-63.

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    MHRA : Atta-ul-Mustafa, , Amara Javed, and Sahar Javaid. 2021. "Neo-Orientalist Gambits in South Asian Global Game in Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden." Global Social Sciences Review, VI: 54-63

MLA

    MLA : Atta-ul-Mustafa, , Amara Javed, and Sahar Javaid. "Neo-Orientalist Gambits in South Asian Global Game in Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden." Global Social Sciences Review, VI.II (2021): 54-63 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Atta-ul-Mustafa, , Javed, Amara, and Javaid, Sahar (2021), "Neo-Orientalist Gambits in South Asian Global Game in Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden", Global Social Sciences Review, VI (II), 54-63

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Atta-ul-Mustafa, , Amara Javed, and Sahar Javaid. "Neo-Orientalist Gambits in South Asian Global Game in Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden." Global Social Sciences Review VI, no. II (2021): 54-63. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-II).06