Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Kali Shalwar” and “Hatak”: A Reading in the Light of Slavoj ŽiŽek’s Theory of Ideology

Abstract

Navdeep Kaur’s “Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Kali Shalwar” and “Hatak”: Reading in the Light of Slavoj ŽiŽek’s Theory of Ideology” examines the two short stories of Manto in the light of Zizek’s idea of false consciousness. The theoretical part of the ideology is elaborated first followed by its application to the characters in the stories. The postcolonial terms of interpellation and ideology are used to further explain the stance. The distorted image of reality in terms of imagination and symbolic subjectivity forms the background of the study of Manto’s characters.