In love and war : the politics of romance in four 21st-century Pakistani novels
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Date
2011
Authors
Duce, Cristy Lee
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Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of English, 2011
Abstract
Writers of fiction have long since relied on love, romance, and desire to drive the
plots of their work, yet some postcolonial authors use romance and interpersonal
relationships to illustrate the larger political and social forces that affect their relatively
marginalized experiences in a global context. To illustrate this literary strategy, I have
chosen to discuss four novels written in the twenty-first century by Pakistani authors: Tbe
Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan, The
Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam, and Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. With the
geographical origin of these writers as a common starting place from which to compare
and contrast their perspectives on global politics, their understandings of gender, and
their perceptions of how the public and the private constitute and intersect each other, I
will use postcolonial theory to dissect the treatment of romance in their respective novels.
Description
v, 85 leaves ; 29 cm
Keywords
Uzma, Aslam Khan -- Criticism and interpretation , Shamsie, Kamila, 1973- -- Criticism and interpretation , Hamid, Mohsin, 1971- -- Criticism and interpretation , Aslam, Nadeem -- Criticim and interpretation , Pakistani literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism , Politics and literature -- Pakistan , Postcolonialism in literature -- 21st century , Love stories, Pakistani -- History and criticism , Dissertations, Academic