EXPLORING POSTMODERN ASPECTS IN “BURNT SHADOWS”
Keywords:
postmodernism, historical, socio-political, Burnt Shadows, literary theoryAbstract
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie gives a fragmentary account of socio-political, historical
events and shows the journey of Hiroko Tanaka. The selected novel is written by a Pakistani
writer. Various new writing techniques are used in this novel that creates comprehension
problems for novice readers. This novel has been dissected from diverse points of view. Hardly
any critic analyzed this text through new literary trends. The present study is conducted to
explore the selected text using postmodern literary theory as the theoretical framework. Data is
collected through secondary sources. Textual analysis is used to analyze the novel which shows
several postmodern elements are used in the novel. The major postmodern elements are present
in the text. This research also enables the reader to understand the novel.
