Cognitive Mapping and Class Consciousness: A Comparative Analysis of Saba Imtiaz’s Karachi, You’re Killing Me! and Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography
This research explores the concept of cognitive mapping and underlines the challenge of class consciousness and its effects on the mental maps. Nuanced with subjective mappings, literature lacks comprehensive depictions of lived and navigated space. This study examines two Pakistani novels, Saba Imtiaz’s Karachi, You're Killing Me! and Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography, by using the theoretical framework of cognitive mapping proposed by Frederick Jameson. The comparative analysis reveals the subjective implications of the protagonists' social statuses in both texts. It highlights how different clas... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, Vol 20, Iss II (2022) |
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National University of Modern Languages (NUML)
Islamabad |
Schlagwörter: | Literary Cartography / Class Consciouness / Social Standing / Cognitive Mapping / Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar / P101-410 / Computational linguistics. Natural language processing / P98-98.5 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27248685 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.52015/numljci.v20iII.234 |