Where worlds collide :
Waterman, David F.,
Where worlds collide : Pakistani fiction in the new millennium / David Waterman, Imran Kureshi, Maryam Arain. - First Edition. - Karachi, Pakistan : Oxford University Press, 2015. - xviii, 260 pages ; 23 cm
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction 1.'Focus on the Fundamentals': Personal and Political Identity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2 Karachi's Fragmented Interdependence: Kamila Shamsie's In The City by the Sea 3.The Itinerary of Cultural Identity: Kamila Shamsie's Kartography and the 'Canker' of History 4. 'The Contact Zone' in Wartime: Hybridity's Promise and Terror in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil 5. Memory and Cultural Identity: Negotiating Modernity in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers 6. 'Zone of Exception': The Question of Constituency in H. M. Naqvi's Home Boy 7. Fiction, History, and a Story that Might be True: A Case of Exploding Mangoes 8. The Geological Pattern of Cultural Evolution: Bergsonian Time, Culture-quakes, and Muslim-Becoming in Geometry of God 9. The Translation of Inherited Trauma: Sorayya Khan's Noor and the 'Corrosive Traces' of what Others Have Forgotten 10. God in the Government: Kamila Shamsie's manifesto Offence: The Muslim Case
Pakistan's current generation of English-language novelists, born after the 1971 war and writing in the twenty-first century, must navigate between the ancient cultural history they have inherited and the relative youth of their country as a political construct. In this book, Dr. David Waterman explores the works of seven writers of this generation, including both residents of Pakistan and authors from the diaspora, in order to examine the manner in which questions of history, culture, and identity arise from this process. Pakistan's history and its present moment have introduced a number of issues of urgent relevance that these writers explore in very practical terms: What does it mean to be a Pakistani now and what might it mean in the near future? How does one speak of past trauma without disrupting the present? What is the role for Islam to play in the governance of such a diverse country? How can we ensure the future of the boys and girls of this land, which is paradoxically both rich and poor? This book is a survey of contemporary Pakistani writers and their efforts to trace the itinerary of Pakistan in the twenty-first century.
9780199400324 (hbk.) :
Pakistani fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
823.920995491 / WAT
Where worlds collide : Pakistani fiction in the new millennium / David Waterman, Imran Kureshi, Maryam Arain. - First Edition. - Karachi, Pakistan : Oxford University Press, 2015. - xviii, 260 pages ; 23 cm
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction 1.'Focus on the Fundamentals': Personal and Political Identity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2 Karachi's Fragmented Interdependence: Kamila Shamsie's In The City by the Sea 3.The Itinerary of Cultural Identity: Kamila Shamsie's Kartography and the 'Canker' of History 4. 'The Contact Zone' in Wartime: Hybridity's Promise and Terror in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil 5. Memory and Cultural Identity: Negotiating Modernity in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers 6. 'Zone of Exception': The Question of Constituency in H. M. Naqvi's Home Boy 7. Fiction, History, and a Story that Might be True: A Case of Exploding Mangoes 8. The Geological Pattern of Cultural Evolution: Bergsonian Time, Culture-quakes, and Muslim-Becoming in Geometry of God 9. The Translation of Inherited Trauma: Sorayya Khan's Noor and the 'Corrosive Traces' of what Others Have Forgotten 10. God in the Government: Kamila Shamsie's manifesto Offence: The Muslim Case
Pakistan's current generation of English-language novelists, born after the 1971 war and writing in the twenty-first century, must navigate between the ancient cultural history they have inherited and the relative youth of their country as a political construct. In this book, Dr. David Waterman explores the works of seven writers of this generation, including both residents of Pakistan and authors from the diaspora, in order to examine the manner in which questions of history, culture, and identity arise from this process. Pakistan's history and its present moment have introduced a number of issues of urgent relevance that these writers explore in very practical terms: What does it mean to be a Pakistani now and what might it mean in the near future? How does one speak of past trauma without disrupting the present? What is the role for Islam to play in the governance of such a diverse country? How can we ensure the future of the boys and girls of this land, which is paradoxically both rich and poor? This book is a survey of contemporary Pakistani writers and their efforts to trace the itinerary of Pakistan in the twenty-first century.
9780199400324 (hbk.) :
Pakistani fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
823.920995491 / WAT