مظہر الاسلام کے افسانوں میں گڑیا کی موجودگی اور افیکٹ تھیوری کا اظہاری کینوس

Abstract

This article examines the symbolic presence of the doll in Mazharul Islam’s short stories and its relation to affect theory. Affect theory emphasizes that before meaning or interpretation emerges, the reader first experiences certain bodily intensities and emotional vibrations such as fear, wonder, grief, or tenderness—that shape the entire act of reading. In other words, affect is the pre conscious intensity felt in the body, while emotion is its socially and linguistically framed form.

By applying this framework, the study analyzes three key stories of Mazharul Islam Guriya ka Zaicha, Guriya ki Aankh se Sheher ko Dekho, and Guhar sy door aik gurya. In Guriya ka Zaicha, the doll maker’s obsessive passion and his tragic suicide highlight how affective investment in creation can lead to despair and disillusionment. In Guriya ki Aankh se Sheher ko Dekho, the doll becomes a lens through which memory, estrangement, and urban alienation are affectively experienced by the reader. The story Guriya itself presents the doll as a symbol of innocence and abandonment, intensifying feelings of loss and forgotten attachments.

Together, these narratives demonstrate how the figure of the doll becomes an affective medium that unsettles and moves the reader even before interpretation. Mazharul Islam’s fiction thus transforms from a representational discourse into a deeply experiential canvas, where affect precedes meaning and the reader participates through sensations as much as through thought.