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Literary Analysis of Zulfiqar Ghose's poetry

1. CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ZULFIQAR GHOSE’S POETRY BY BY MADIHA HABIB National University of Modern Languages

2. BIOGRAPHY The expatriate Zulfiqar Ghose , originally Khwaja Zulfiqar Ahmed the Novelist, Poet, Story Writer, Autobiographer, Journalist, Educationalist, Essayist and Literary Critic born on 13 March 1935 at Sialkot (a city in East Punjab which later on became West Pakistan after the partition of Subcontinent in 1947). His father Khwaja Mohammad Ghose moved his extended Muslim family to the bustling city of Bombay after World War 2 in 1942 for business opportunities. Ghose was deeply affected by communal tension and the horrific Partition riots.

3. in1952 moved to London educated at Sloane School, London, at Keele University he received his BA in English and Philosophy in London he worked as a cricket and hockey reporter for T he Observer wrote book reviews for the TLS and The Spectator contributed to the Arts page of The Western Daily Press in Bristol worked as a school teacher Got married to the Brazilian artist Helena de la Fontaine .

4. Literary Works

5. Novels The Murder of Aziz Khan (1967 ) A New History of Torments (1982) Crump Term’s (1975 ) The Incredible Brazilian: The Native (1972 ) The Incredible Brazilian: The Beautiful Empire (1975) The Incredible Brazilian: A Different World ( 1978) The Triple Mirror of Self (1992)

6. Autobiograhies “ Redbrick Ritual” “School Days in Bombay ” Confessions of Native Alien (1965)

7. Poetic Collections The Loss of India (1964) Jets From Orange (1967 ) The Violent West (1972) A Memory of Asia (1984)

8. Short Story Collections Statement against Corpses (1964) Veronica and the Gongora Passion: Stories, Fictions, Tales, and One Fable (1998 ) Critical Volumes Hamlet , Prufrock, and Language (1978), The Fiction of Reality ( 1984) The Art of Creating Fiction (1991 ) Shakespeare's Mortal Knowledge (1993)

9. Ghose’s Prominent Themes profound sense of alienation and homelessness . how politics and historical events damaged individual’s life. persons who are searching for identity, home and belonging, people affected by colonialism and post-colonialism .

10. Ghose’s Style Ghose’s style is diverse and varied ,use stream of consciousness technique to capture the feelings of his alienated protagonist Often experimental in form, Ghose's works are infused with realism, magic realism, metaphor, symbolism, and allegory to create a metaphysical reality. He frequently employs mimetic strategies within his writing to force the reader to re-examine the purpose of the text. Use simple language to convey his message.

11. Critical Reception Many reviewers praise Ghose's careful construction and attention to technique. Commentators praise Ghose's manipulation of technique to achieve his effects . Some commentators find that Ghose's experimental style detracts from the story and frustrates the reader, while others applaud these techniques because they engage the reader to become active in the search for reality in the text. Some critics believe that Ghose's writing is at its best when he relaxes his form, and when he writes from a more personal point of view

12. Audience Reception Rizwan Akhtar a PhD fellow at the University of Essex, UK has written about Zulfiqar Ghose in his column “Always Alien” in The News “ Zulfiqar Ghose is the only writer from the sub-continent whose work is a conscientious depiction of different cultures, but, in the literary sense, he has never shown any concern to claim his roots and the place of his origin.” The anonymous reviewer of The Times Literary Supplement said about Ghose “when Ghose describes the formidable problems that he has had to face in finding a realistic identity, he is at once touching and interesting”. Waqas Ahmed Khwaja views about Ghose : “Whether he is writing fiction, novels, poetry, stories or autobiographies, Ghose is regarded as a writer who is constantly experimenting with language and form”

13. DECOMPOSITION

14. Major Themes Marginalization and social responsibility Concern for other human beings

15. GEOGRAPHY LESSONS

16. Themes Preservation of Nature Hostility of Mankind

17. THIS LANDSCAPE, THESE PEOPLE

18. Themes Identity crisis Nostalgia