Apocalypse of Warring Ideologies in the South Asian Context: Deconstructive Analysis of The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam
Abstract
Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden (2013) is a replica of the political chaos which prevails in the South Asian region in the wake of 9/11. The present research aims at exploring the conflict of ideas manifested through binary oppositions in the novel in the light of Jaques Derrida’s theory of deconstruction. Warring ideologies bring forth the conflict between two major entities of the torturers and the sufferers, former are the Americans and warlords, while Pakistanis and Afghanis make the latter group in The Blind Man’s Garden. The analysis of binary oppositions reveals that the binary traits ultimately manifest a constant conflict beyond the apparent opposition of politically powerful groups, i.e., the USA, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The conflict lies between the freedom and imprisonment, humanity and bestiality, world of nature and the world of man, tolerance and intolerance, tradition and modernity etc. The research amplifies Nadeem Aslam’s provocation for the need of humanity to be inculcated for the amelioration of the apocalyptic occurrences in the South Asian region involving innocent lives in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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