Naimat Khana: The Narrative of Human's Mythological and Surreal Structure
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Jameel Noori Nastaleeq";">Mythology serves as humanit...
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University of the Punjab, Institute of Urdu Language and Literature, Lahore
2025-06-01
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| Series: | بازیافت |
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| Online Access: | http://111.68.103.26/journals/index.php/Bazyaft/article/view/8213 |
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| Summary: | <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Jameel Noori Nastaleeq";">Mythology serves as humanity's most profound storytelling tradition, artfully encapsulating civilization's cultural DNA, historical consciousness, and cosmic wonder through narratives of gods, mortals, and creation itself. This timeless tradition finds fresh expression in Khalid Javed's <em>Nimat Khana</em>, which reinvents mythological storytelling for contemporary Urdu literature.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Jameel Noori Nastaleeq"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Jameel Noori Nastaleeq";"> The novel constructs a vast imaginative landscape where myth and modernity intersect. Javed's expansive plot weaves together human creation myths, dreamlike states, and metaphysical inquiries, creating a tapestry rich with intellectual depth. What makes <em>Nimatkhana</em> remarkable is its dualistic nature - it functions simultaneously as mythological allegory and psychological mirror, reflecting both our transcendental history and primal human truths. At its core, the novel explores human appetite in its most fundamental forms: the sexual and the psychological, the rational and the instinctual. Javed elevates these themes beyond mere fictional devices, crafting a narrative realm where passion and sexuality emerge as authentic forces shaping human connection. The novel's brilliance lies in how it transports readers from conventional fiction into a liminal space-one that feels simultaneously invented and unsettlingly real.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Jameel Noori Nastaleeq"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-language: FA;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Jameel Noori Nastaleeq";"> Through its innovative synthesis of ancient mythic structures and contemporary existential concerns, <em>Nimat Khana</em> does more than tell a story - it creates a visionary framework for understanding how humanity's oldest narratives continue to inform our most personal truths. This work establishes itself as a significant contribution to modern Urdu literature's engagement with mythological consciousness.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Jameel Noori Nastaleeq"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-language: FA;" lang="FA"> </span></p> |
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| ISSN: | 1992-3678 2788-4848 |