In love and war : the politics of romance in four 21st-century Pakistani novels

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dc.contributor.authorDuce, Cristy Lee
dc.contributor.supervisorNg, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-27T22:55:03Z
dc.date.available2012-09-27T22:55:03Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptionv, 85 leaves ; 29 cmen_US
dc.description.abstractWriters 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3127
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of English, 2011en_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectUzma, Aslam Khan -- Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.subjectShamsie, Kamila, 1973- -- Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.subjectHamid, Mohsin, 1971- -- Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.subjectAslam, Nadeem -- Criticim and interpretationen_US
dc.subjectPakistani literature -- 21st century -- History and criticismen_US
dc.subjectPolitics and literature -- Pakistanen_US
dc.subjectPostcolonialism in literature -- 21st centuryen_US
dc.subjectLove stories, Pakistani -- History and criticismen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleIn love and war : the politics of romance in four 21st-century Pakistani novelsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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