Date of Award
8-2025
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School
Humanities
Committee Chair
Olivia Clare Friedman
Committee Chair School
Humanities
Committee Member 2
Monika Gehlawat
Committee Member 2 School
Humanities
Committee Member 3
Joshua Bernstein
Committee Member 3 School
Humanities
Committee Member 4
Charles Sumner
Committee Member 4 School
Humanities
Abstract
Set in rural and suburban Faisalabad, Pakistan, Prisoners is a collection of short stories featuring characters routinely trapped in hopeless personal, social, and spiritual crises. Using a wide stylistic and tonal range—from urbane realism to absurd and sardonic humor to dense surrealism—I strive to reveal the complexity of human experience and the power of literary artifact. The critical introduction to the collection discusses the constricting expectations placed upon postcolonial writers and the ways in which I diverge from that tradition.
Copyright
Abubaker Zahoor, 2025
Recommended Citation
Zahoor, Abubaker, "Prisoners and Other Stories" (2025). Dissertations. 2392.
https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/2392
Included in
Asian American Studies Commons, Fiction Commons, Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America Commons, Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Commons, South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies Commons