رشید امجد کے افسانوی مجموعہ "سہ پہر کی خزاں میں" کا نفسیاتی و ادراکی بیانیہ: راوی کی شعوری ساخت کا مطالعہ

Abstract

Rather than functioning as a neutral storyteller, the narrator in Rashid Amjad's Se Pehar Ki Khizān Mein emerges as the central site where fictional reality is psychologically constructed. This article examines how memory, inner dialogue, uncertainty, and existential consciousness shape narrative meaning and transform external events into subjective experience. Using close textual reading, the study interprets selected stories through perspectives drawn from cognitive narratology, narrative psychology, fictional minds, theory of mind, and existential psychology. The analysis suggests that the narrative world is organized by patterns of consciousness rather than by the sequence of events. Fragmented memory, reflective thinking, emotional conflict, and shifting perception continuously redefine both the narrator's identity and the structure of the stories. The study argues that Rashid Amjad expands the possibilities of modern Urdu fiction by presenting narration as a dynamic psychological process instead of a simple act of storytelling. This perspective offers a fresh framework for understanding narrative consciousness in contemporary Urdu short fiction.