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020			_a9780199400324 (hbk.) :
041			_aEnglish
082	0	4	_a823.920995491 _223 _bWAT
100	1		_aWaterman, David F.,
245	1	0	_aWhere worlds collide : _bPakistani fiction in the new millennium / _cDavid Waterman, Imran Kureshi, Maryam Arain.
250			_aFirst Edition.
260			_aKarachi, Pakistan : _bOxford University Press, _c2015.
300			_axviii, 260 pages ; _c23 cm
500			_aFormerly CIP.
505			_tIntroduction _t1.'Focus on the Fundamentals': Personal and Political Identity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist _t2 Karachi's Fragmented Interdependence: Kamila Shamsie's In The City by the Sea _t3.The Itinerary of Cultural Identity: Kamila Shamsie's Kartography and the 'Canker' of History _t4. 'The Contact Zone' in Wartime: Hybridity's Promise and Terror in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil _t5. Memory and Cultural Identity: Negotiating Modernity in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers _t6. 'Zone of Exception': The Question of Constituency in H. M. Naqvi's Home Boy _t7. Fiction, History, and a Story that Might be True: A Case of Exploding Mangoes _t8. The Geological Pattern of Cultural Evolution: Bergsonian Time, Culture-quakes, and Muslim-Becoming in Geometry of God _t9. The Translation of Inherited Trauma: Sorayya Khan's Noor and the 'Corrosive Traces' of what Others Have Forgotten _t10. God in the Government: Kamila Shamsie's manifesto Offence: The Muslim Case
520			_aPakistan'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.
650		0	_aPakistani fiction
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
100	1		_eauthor.
500			_5Uk
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_y21st century _xHistory and criticism.