Borders and Boundaries: Reading Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh’, ‘The Last Salute’ and ‘Yazid’

Abstract

Barnali Saha’s “Borders and Boundaries: Reading Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh’, ‘The Last Salute’ and ‘Yazid’” reads Manto as an artist who critiques the politics of the Partition in unequivocal terms. Appropriating the critical framework of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Structuralism, it studies Manto’s stories as ironic creative outputs that underscore the absurdities of the connection between the signifier and the signified in the discourse of India’s Partition.