Covid-19 and Literary Resistance in Pakistan: A Feminist Analysis of The Stained-Glass Window.
This paper explores the stories of women impacted by COVID-19 and narrated by Pakistani writers. The discussion is primarily based on flash fiction from a recent anthology entitled, The Stained-Glass Window (2020). I critically analyse selected short stories in the context of the cultural taboos (su...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Research in Humanities Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 125 - 146 |
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University of the Punjab, Department of English Language & Literature
Feb2021
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