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NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry
ISSN 2789-4665 · National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad · 81 articles in the index
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Liberation or a Creative Balance?: A Case For Epistemologies of the South (ES)
This paper is about a paradigmatic shift: from the until now dominant western-centric modernity to a plurality of non-western-centric modernities. Such a paradigmatic shift will call for new political, economic, cultural, social, and epistemic tools. In this paper I concentrate on the epistemic…
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Conformity and Crisis: Analyzing the Digital and Gendered Personae through Jung's Archetypes
Historically, human psyche has been a subject of literary inquiry but the challenges of postmodern age require a renewal examination through which identity is constructed and maintained in society. This article applies Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology to analyze the critical tension between the…
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Governing Life and Beyond: The Politics of Survival in Mo Yan’s Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh
This paper examines selected short stories from Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh written by Mo Yan and critically explores governance, survival, death, and the instability of human subjectivity set in post-socialist China. Mo Yan’s fiction highlights a system in which power operates through…
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Language, Power and Gendered Silence through Hegemonic Euphemism in Gul’s A Pathan Daughter
Language shapes and is shaped by society. It is rarely neutral as it affects norms, perception, and veils power asymmetries. Euphemistic language often masks hegemony and inequalities particularly in patriarchal societies. This study examines the hegemonic function of euphemistic language in Gul’s…
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Born Free, Chained by the Capitalist: Exploitation of Wildlife in Tania James's The Tusk that Did the Damage
This paper aims to highlight the oppression of wild animals in Southern India in the wake of late capitalist patriarchal developments. Late capitalism with its exploitative tendencies marginalizes the Third World environment including wild animals. This study focuses on the intricate processes that…
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Humor and Resistance in Pakistani Corporate Memes
This study aims at investigating how humor is constructed in corporate memes through cognitive mechanisms and how corporate memes are used as a collective voice by Pakistani employees to express discontent with their work culture and organizational practices. Based on Conceptual blending theory…
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Displacement and Exilic Guilt: Exploring Psychological Trauma in Ghassan Kanafani's "Returning to Haifa"
This study examines the intertwined relationship between guilt, trauma, loss, and displacement. It explores the psychological consequences of detaching from homeland, emphasizing that one’s home plays an important role in shaping one’s identity. The study also illustrates how suppressed emotions…
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Adopting AI-Based Speech Recognition for Enhancing Pronunciation Accuracy and Learner Confidence
This study examines the integration of AI–based speech recognition (ELSA Speak, Speechling) in a language centre and its effects on pronunciation accuracy and learner confidence. Two groups of intermediate EFL learners (N = 40) completed pre-test and post-test diagnostic pronunciation assessments…
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Unbalancing A Fine Balance: Narrating Social Disability and Institutionalized Injustice
This paper examines the demonstration of institutional inequality and power politics producing conditions of social disablement within the Indian historical context portrayed in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance (1995). Guided by Iris Marion Young’s “Five Faces of Oppression” (2008), the research…
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Demystifying Violence: A Study of Resistant ‘Self’ Against Controlling Images in Afro-American Feminist Literature
The debates on the epistemic, cultural, and historical erasure of Black women in White feminist discourse have been historically established, revealing the racialized gender politics against Black subjectivity. Tainted with an overarching ideological stereotyping, the chief goal is to produce…
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Pluribiological Cosmopolitanism and More-than-Human Societies
In this essay, I discuss the notions of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism from an interspecies perspective. I propose the concept of "pluribiologism" as an alternative to Western multiculturalism and to the multinaturalism that anthropologists such as Eduardo Viveiros de Castro identify in the…
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Monolithic Modes of Oppression: An Intersectional Approach to Class and Gender in Tendulkar’s Kamala
The study aims to answer critical issues concerning the nuanced interplay of gender, class, and silence in shaping the experiences of South Asian women, as well as different layers of oppression that become the cause of multilayered identities. Through an in-depth analysis of Vijay Tendulkar's play…
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The Development of Nominal Synsets for the Saraiki Language: A Corpus-based Analysis
This paper focuses on developing nominal synsets for the Saraiki language (SL), a lesser-studied language spoken in Pakistan. Nominal synsets are groups of nouns that share semantic characteristics and are crucial for natural language processing tasks such as information retrieval, machine…
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Terraforming the Red Planet: Imperial Domination, Neocolonial Control, and Resistance in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars
This paper uses Edward Said’s concept of colonial discourse to examine how Mars is colonized by the governments of Earth and dominated by transnational capitalism, as it is depicted in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars. The novel portrays Mars as a battlefield for the imperial powers of Earth, where…
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Slamming Narratives: A Critical Analysis of Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s Slam Poetry
Some popular literary feminist discourses have reduced Muslim woman’s identity to a homogenous monolithic entity devoid of her subjectivity and agency. Resultantly, Muslim women seem to be reduced to a stereotypical image of an oriental, marginalized entity, as these narratives are often employed…