Exploring Genette’s Elements in A Pair of Jeans and Tamasha

A Narratological Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze Qaisra Shahraz’s A Pair of Jeans from Moniza Shamsie’s anthology entitled And the World Changed (2007) and an Urdu short story Tamasha (2018) written by a Pakistani female Tehreem Amanullah Bukhari. The research defines the narrative elements laid out by Gerard Genette emphasizing how the story is told instead of focusing on the story itself as other narratologists did. Next, the six narrative elements of Gerard will be applied to the selected short story, which are: mimesis/diegesis, narrative focalisation, storytelling, time, packages, and thought and speech representation. The findings suggest that both the story contain mimetic and diegetic elements, narrative focalisations, effaced or covert narrators, different representations of speech and thought, analepsis and prolepsis, and embedded narratives.

Keywords: Qaisra Shahraz, A Pair of Jeans, anthology, Tehreem Amanullah, Bukhari, Tamasha, narrative, elements, Genette, narratologists, short story.