Cara Cilano

National Identities in Pakistan (eBook, ePUB)

The 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a truncated Pakistan. This book examines how literature by those who remained Pakistanis acts as a cultural response to the threat the war posed to a nationalist identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135225063
• Artikelnr.: 41065397

Autorenporträt

Cara Cilano is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina- Wilmington, USA. She has edited a collection of essays, From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the US (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The 'Deep Wounds' of Nations 2. 'It is Impossible to
Assess Precisely Where the Truth Lies': The Diffusion of Authority in The
Report of the Hamoodur Rehan Commission 3. 'Freeing the Outlook of Man from
Its Geographical Limitations': Nationalism, History, and Literature in
Pakistan 4. Domestic Violence: At Home in the Nation 5. Eternally Displaced
Persons: Inside the Borders, Outside the Nation 6. Unfinished Business:
Designs Against the Nation 7. Distant Reflections, Distinct Refractions:
Diaspora and the Nation 8. Coda: Neighbourhood Watch: The 1971 Pakistani
War in English-Language Fictions from Bangladesh and the Indian Diaspora