Between Bloodlines and Boundaries: A Study of Exclusion and Resistance in Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron

Authors

  • Sadia Nazeer, PhD,Dr. Anbarin Fatima,Hamza Bin Anees

Keywords:

Danger, Nobility, Purity, Rituals, Social order, Social Exclusion

Abstract

This research attempts at a close textual analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron throughMary Douglas’s lens of ‘purity and danger’. Shamsie’s narrative is based on an aristocraticfamily Dard-e-Dil which upholds

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References

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994.

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Routledge, 2002. (Originally published in 1966)

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Published

2025-01-15

How to Cite

Sadia Nazeer, PhD,Dr. Anbarin Fatima,Hamza Bin Anees. (2025). Between Bloodlines and Boundaries: A Study of Exclusion and Resistance in Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron. Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 15(1), 583–589. Retrieved from https://www.pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/4297

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): PEGEGOG

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