An Unwilling Suspension of Misbeliefs: Acknowledging the Complexity of Reality in Night of Happiness by Tabish Khair

An Unwilling Suspension of Misbeliefs: Acknowledging the Complexity of Reality in Night of Happiness by Tabish Khair

By focusing on Tabish Khair’s latest literary endeavour, a short novel entitled Night of Happiness (2018), this paper sets out to investigate what, in the writer’s opinion, is the root of most problems affecting human relationships and society as a whole: our unwillingness to embrace the unexpected...

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Main Author: Elisabetta Marino
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2019-12-01
Series:Acta Neophilologica
Subjects:
fundamentalisms
identity
Night of Happiness
stereotypical perceptions
Tabish Khair
Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/8932
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An Unwilling Suspension of Misbeliefs: Acknowledging the Complexity of Reality in Night of Happiness by Tabish Khair
Acta Neophilologica
fundamentalisms
identity
Night of Happiness
stereotypical perceptions
Tabish Khair
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title An Unwilling Suspension of Misbeliefs: Acknowledging the Complexity of Reality in Night of Happiness by Tabish Khair
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title_full An Unwilling Suspension of Misbeliefs: Acknowledging the Complexity of Reality in Night of Happiness by Tabish Khair
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title_full_unstemmed An Unwilling Suspension of Misbeliefs: Acknowledging the Complexity of Reality in Night of Happiness by Tabish Khair
title_sort unwilling suspension of misbeliefs: acknowledging the complexity of reality in night of happiness by tabish khair
publisher Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
series Acta Neophilologica
issn 0567-784X
2350-417X
publishDate 2019-12-01
description By focusing on Tabish Khair’s latest literary endeavour, a short novel entitled Night of Happiness (2018), this paper sets out to investigate what, in the writer’s opinion, is the root of most problems affecting human relationships and society as a whole: our unwillingness to embrace the unexpected complexity of reality, reassuringly misperceived through the filter of one’s misconceptions.
topic fundamentalisms
identity
Night of Happiness
stereotypical perceptions
Tabish Khair
url https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/8932
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