DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2020.v08i09.006

Pages: 467-473

This study would like to examine Hasan Azizul Huq’s The Firebird with a view to unveiling the practical picture of socio-political crisis and communal riots of the 20th-century Indian Subcontinent. It aims to foster the real image of displacements, civil war, genocide, poverty, famine, and so on. Throughout his literary career, Huq has protested the dishonest politicians and bureaucrats with a view to exposing the true color of their characters. For signifying the practical image of corrupt politics and unsocial activities of the age, the novelist has taken his pen to write down in the form of fiction and story. As a minute observer of society and politics, he has practically shed new light on different issues of human character. His superb making creation of an anonymous female protagonist feels the necessity of freedom and existence of her birth land, for which she goes beyond the decision of the patriarchal rule and order. His novel focuses on freedom of movement, exclusion of British products, famine of ’43, partition of ’47, and the two riots of the Muslim and the Hindu communities. Also, this study would like to apply the conflict theory of socio-political concerns made by Karl Marks, Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, Smith Steve, and Kenneth Waltz. For this purpose, it aims to explore Hasan Azizul Huq’s treatment of socio-political concerns with reference to his epoch-making creation The Firebird.