Pakistani literature and Post-colonial literature

Pakistani literature is a distinct literature emerged after 1947 by founding of Pakistan by Pakistani writers. They wrote not only in English but also in Urdu, Punjabi and in other native languages. This was also the post-colonial era (1960s to 1990s), when colonies around the world were struggling for independence and for better systems in their societies. Writers around the world were not pointing out the issues in society but also struggling to cure society from their poison.

At that time (after making of Pakistan) many Pakistani writers influenced by different cultures around the world started writing in different dialects. Like in the very beginning when they could not find facilities in Pakistan they migrated to different countries like America, Britain, Africa etc. while living in these countries they started writing about Pakistani literature. Some of them could depict the Pakistani culture in better way and few tried to just criticize the Pakistani culture.

A few writers when they came back in Pakistan, they started writing here but there writings contain the taste of that land from where they had come back. But one thing that must be remembered at this point is that if someone is living elsewhere not in Pakistan, but he or she writes about Pakistan that will be consider as Pakistani literature.

In the very beginning Pakistani writers started writing short stories because that will be simple, in easy wording and will be easy for people to understand it. One reason of starting with short story could be that writers do not have good command on English language or the people do not have sufficient knowledge of English so that they can read long texts and understand them.

Their purpose of writing at the beginning was just to entertain people but later they started witting about conflicts and injustices in society. The purpose behind depicting the true worst picture of society was just to bring change and reformation in better way in the society.

At last, they started writing about imagery things, fiction stories. Now they have progressed a lot step by step from short stories to conflicts and injustices.

We can easily find a good number of DIASPORA WRITERS also known as DESCENDANTS in that era. They were those writers who were not in Pakistan but they wrote about Pakistani culture or about Pakistani society.

We can easily find the MAGICAL REALISM in Pakistani literature writings. That aims to depict magical or fantastic situation in real world or write imagery things.

Writers of that era commonly write about social problems, they discussed political conflicts as an issue, violent issues not only about humans but also about animals, complex issues like religion, race and cultural differences. The purpose behind highlighting all these issues just to cure society from them. But alas, these things are now in more verse condition in our society.

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