Binary thinking is a way of understanding the world around. It is used to oversimplify the complex situations and reality. Dichotomous way of thinking usually uses an innate hierarchy of the two objects or situations it makes binary of. Urdu Novel since its inception used binary opposites to foreground the characters it likes or dislikes. In this…[Read more]

Abstract of presentation at 2023 MLA Convention session “193 – Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity”