“It’s Karachi, Its, Where Life and Love Come to Die”: Representing Gender, Space and Identity in Karachi You are Killing Me

This paper demonstrates that Saba Imtiaz’s Karachi You Are Killing Me, re-conceptualizes the relationship between urban spaces and female bodies. The traditional theories define space as unchangeable physical reality profoundly affects its inhabitants. Feminist theorists question gendered perspective on both corporeality. Drawing Elizabeth Grosz (1998) concept bodies cities, I will investigate how woman being spectator spectacle renegotiates her identity within patriarchal spaces. research argues Grosz’s of Bodies-cities is an important intervention in our understanding spatial politics postcolonial spaces, it discusses play role formation Her seminal feminist work invents a new insight into city-body nexus also helps to address issues such gender discrimination, inequalities, violence.