01 - Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Time Travellesque Trapped Kinetics of Refug
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-II).0110.31703/gssr.2025(X-II).01 Published : Jun 2025
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This paper demonstrates how Mohsin Hamid's Exit West deals with the pernicious consequences of war, and anarchy. The refugees Saeed and Nadia resorted to escape routes in search of an asylum, due to war. These were desperate times that called for desperate measures. When both protagonists escape using "black doors," what I call 'time- time-travellesque,' it transports them to an alternate re... Details
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Black Doors, Spatio-Temporal, Surveillance, Time Travellesque, Trapped Kinetics, Refugees
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(1) Mahwish Abid
Ph. D scholar, Department of English, International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Aroosa Kanwal
Professor, Department of English, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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