The Nuptiality of Arranged Marriage Traditions Leading to Generational Gap and Modernity in How it Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider
This paper aims to explore the conflict between the younger and older generation due to the two extreme beliefs and rigidity towards their notions. It attempts to achieve the objective of exploring the idea of arranged marriage and other marriage traditions as portrayed in How it Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider. Using the qualitative method of research, this paper uses multiple secondary texts to analyze the primary text in light of tradition and modernity and generational conflict. It critically analyzes the chosen novel in the light of three different texts focusing on modernity and tradition. The primary text is evaluated in the light of texts by famous critics, that include Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation by Mohammed Abdul Qadeer, ‘The Problems of Generations’ by Hungarian sociologist Karl Mannheim and The Consequences of Modernity by English sociologist Anthony Giddens. This paper finds out that it is due to the generational gap and modernity that the younger generation is standing against the older generation in the pursuit of pre-arranged marriage traditions resulting in a clash between them.
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Arranged Marriages, Generational Gap, Modernity, Rigidity, Tradition
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(1) Faiza Ishfaq
Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Arshad Nawaz
Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Sub-Campus Hafizabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Kalsoom Saddique
Lecturer, Department of English, Minhaj University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Ishfaq, F., Nawaz, A., & Saddique, K. (2022). The Nuptiality of Arranged Marriage Traditions Leading to Generational Gap and Modernity in How it Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider. Global Language Review, VII(II), 489-499. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).40
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CHICAGO : Ishfaq, Faiza, Arshad Nawaz, and Kalsoom Saddique. 2022. "The Nuptiality of Arranged Marriage Traditions Leading to Generational Gap and Modernity in How it Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider." Global Language Review, VII (II): 489-499 doi: 10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).40
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HARVARD : ISHFAQ, F., NAWAZ, A. & SADDIQUE, K. 2022. The Nuptiality of Arranged Marriage Traditions Leading to Generational Gap and Modernity in How it Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider. Global Language Review, VII, 489-499.
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MHRA : Ishfaq, Faiza, Arshad Nawaz, and Kalsoom Saddique. 2022. "The Nuptiality of Arranged Marriage Traditions Leading to Generational Gap and Modernity in How it Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider." Global Language Review, VII: 489-499
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MLA : Ishfaq, Faiza, Arshad Nawaz, and Kalsoom Saddique. "The Nuptiality of Arranged Marriage Traditions Leading to Generational Gap and Modernity in How it Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider." Global Language Review, VII.II (2022): 489-499 Print.
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OXFORD : Ishfaq, Faiza, Nawaz, Arshad, and Saddique, Kalsoom (2022), "The Nuptiality of Arranged Marriage Traditions Leading to Generational Gap and Modernity in How it Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider", Global Language Review, VII (II), 489-499
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TURABIAN : Ishfaq, Faiza, Arshad Nawaz, and Kalsoom Saddique. "The Nuptiality of Arranged Marriage Traditions Leading to Generational Gap and Modernity in How it Happened by Shazaf Fatima Haider." Global Language Review VII, no. II (2022): 489-499. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).40