Exploring Double Consciousness: Capitalist Attitude and White Supremacy in Drama Serial Parizaad

Authors

  • Shafqat Hussain University of Sindh Jamshoro, Sindh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54183/jssr.v2i2.31

Keywords:

Double Consciousness, Money, Mimicry, Parizaad, Pakistani Drama

Abstract

The current research study explores the suffering of double
consciousness in the character of Parizaad in Pakistani Urdu drama serial,
Parizaad. It is a story which unfolds Marxist, racist and sociological themes.
However, the researcher has utilized a non-empirical Textual Analysis
Method of research along with following the concept of double consciousness
by Du Bois as a theoretical framework for analyzing the drama serial to
explore the research objective. The framework argues that black people are
behaved racially which causes inferiority complex, second-sight and twoness
in them. Similarly, the analysis of the drama serial in this research study
manifested that Pakistani brown people, following white legacy of racism,
consider themselves superior to their fellow blackish people. Also, the power
of money is dominant, and such socio-economic factors cause double
consciousness in the character of blackish-skin Parizaad.

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2022-06-30

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Shafqat Hussain. (2022). Exploring Double Consciousness: Capitalist Attitude and White Supremacy in Drama Serial Parizaad . Journal of Social Sciences Review, 2(2), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.54183/jssr.v2i2.31