An Artistic and Stylistic Study of the Flashback Technique in Mukhtar Masood's Safar Naseeb

Abstract

Flashback technique in Mukhtar Masood’s travelogue Safar Naseeb and explores its artistic, historical, and stylistic significance. The research analyses how the writer interweaves present experiences with personal memories, historical events, and cultural narratives to create a multilayered narrative structure. Rather than functioning merely as a recollection of the past, flashback serves as a literary device that strengthens thematic unity, enriches historical consciousness, and deepens the reader’s understanding of places, personalities, and civilizations. The study concludes that Mukhtar Masood employs flashback with remarkable artistic skill, transforming Safar Naseeb from a conventional travelogue into a profound intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic text that occupies a distinguished place in modern Urdu prose.