Abstract:

Zahida Hina is the leading literary scholar, a famous columnist and wellknown fiction writer of Pakistan. She is a keen observer of the different traits of the society. She is also a social activist regarding feminism and human rights. She wrote on social, historical, political and psychological issues in her stories and created different characters representing psychological disorders. She blended the characters in partition of India, the migration, the transformation of Indian civilization and culture and the preservation of historical truths for the next generation. In this article, the authors have brought forward a critical and psychological study of the selected main fictional characters created and presented by Zahida Hina in her short stories.

Keywords:

Psychological, Sexual, Un Conscious, Nostalgia, Id, Ego, Super Ego.

Romanized References:

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2. ibid., p. 117.
3. ibid., p. 126.
4. ibid., p. 126.
5. ibid., p. 15.
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9. ibid., p. 17.
10. ibid., p. 18.
11. ibid., p. 27.
12. ibid., p. 29.
13. ibid., pp. 78–79.
14. ibid., p. 172.
15. ibid., p. 172.
16. ibid., pp. 172–173.
17. ibid., p. 180.
18. ibid., p. 94.
19. ibid., p. 98.
20. ibid., p. 99.
21. ibid., p. 99.
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24. ibid., p. 17.
25. ibid., p. 12.
26. ibid., p. 105.
27. ibid., p. 94.
28. ibid., p. 95.
29. ibid., p. 102.
30. ibid., pp. 102–103.
31. ibid., p. 102.
32. ibid., p. 105.
33. ibid., p. 66.
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35. ibid., p. 19.
36. ibid., p. 23.
37. ibid., p. 30.
38. ibid., p. 31.