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  • Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

    Idea, Nation, State

    by Cara Cilano ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and developments, including pre-20th century Islamic history, the 1947 partition, the 1971 Pakistani war, the Zia ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • National Identities in Pakistan

    The 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction

    by Cara Cilano ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    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. It provides an analysis of the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan

    Spies and "Terrorists"

    by Cara Cilano ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    As the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath influence new developments in spy fiction as a popular genre, an examination of these literary narratives concerned with espionage and terrorism can reshape our approach to non-fictive representations of the same concerns.Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan examines post-9/11 American spy fictions alongside Pakistani novels that ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Dreams That Matter

    Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination

    by Amira Mittermaier ...
    Dreams that Matter explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superstition, a Sufi devotional group that keeps a diary of dreams related to its shaykh, and ordinary believers who speak of ... Read more

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  • Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

    Remembering 1971

    by Yasmin Saikia ...
    Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. ... Read more

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    Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

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  • Muslim Becoming

    Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan

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  • Contemporary Arab Women Writers

    Cultural Expression in Context

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  • Among the Jasmine Trees

    Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria

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