5. Perspective of Postmodern and Criticism of Dr. Qazi Abid. مابعد جدید تناظر اور ڈاکٹر قاضی عابد کی تنقید نگاری

Author(s) : Muhammad Yousuf Noon./ Dr. Tariq Mahmood.

Abstract:

Dr. Qazi Abid is a well renowned Urdu critic. He was a pragmatic progressive and neo-Marxist. Like many other progressives he was not intellectually stagnant. His progressivism draws light from modernism and postmodernism rather than to oppose them. To him, to be progressive is to be enlightened and big-hearted. Instead of establishing novel theoretical discourse, he has practically applied all the new discourses to Urdu literature. For intellectual satisfaction, he had direct access to Western philosophies; and resultantly, his criticism doesn’t have any ambiguity and contradiction. He finds many similarities between modernism and postmodernism. Dr. Qazi has successfully applied discourses such as structuralism, post structuralism, post colonialism and neo colonialism, historiography and neo historiography to the texts of Urdu literature.