ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to engage with issues related to the central role that narratives play in the construction of the historical past with reference to Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire. Expounding the cognate aspects of historiography, historicity and narrative time, not only from the disciplinary perspectives of history but also from that of literary studies, this analytical framework provides the linkages between history, memory and time in the memorialization of the past in River of Fire. In this chapter, an attempt will be made to explore the theme of time and temporality in the narrativization of memories in River of Fire through the postcolonial lens.
