Aliya as an Aesthetic Construct in City of Spies: A Step Ahead under the Phantom of Post- Colonialism

Abstract

Traumatized postcolonial writings incline towards the specified issues faced by individual or groups in the wake of settlements, immigrations and colonization in a negative connotations. The novel, City of Spies written by Sorrya Khan Challenges the clichéd writing on the issues of post colonialism and represents the logical settling of an individual mind on the platform provided by the situation associated with postcolonial structure of a society. The paper, at hand is to showcase the individual settling with the exposed world in the response to the understanding and accepting the reality and tries to manage self with place by share understanding of the situation. The construction of the notion is developed from Tyson (2006) in Critical Theory Today. This allows the reader to read the novel under the phantom of postcolonial studies and to give individual voice, the grounding to stand under the notions presented by other vice and let the individual decide which voice is more connected to her under that trauma of post colonialism.  Introduction and literature review throws light on the present research is an attempt to see individual voice with the glimpse of individual psychology. With the female protagonist; Aliya, the study is not only an attempt to highlight; that classism, and othering try to steal one from her voice but also a logical proceeding to understand the phenomenon, often referred under post colonialism. In the same context, the tendency to bring positivity out of negativity can create another positive voice to settle not for classism and othering but for one own self, is the dominant view of this research. Thus the transition from eruption of self into bewilderment to the soothing off, into adjustments and settlements of self, are the major outcomes of Aliya character’ development, subsequent to settlement, migration and classism.