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National Identities in Pakistan

In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan 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 writing by Pakistani authors in their attempt to deal with the radical shock of the war and shows how fiction about the war helps readers imagine what the paring down of the country means for any abiding articulation of a Pakistani group identification.

The author discusses English- and Urdu-language fictions in the context of the historical debate about Pakistani nationalism, including how such nationalism informs literary culture, and the contemporary interest in official apologies for the past. The author organises the literary analysis around four key issues: the domestic sphere and the family; the territorial limits of citizenship; multiculturalism, class, and nationalist history; and diasporic imaginings of the nation. These issues resonate across the fictions in both languages and the authors analysis of them traces how these works grapple with changing notions of what it means to be Pakistani after the civil war and offers an interesting discussion to studies in South Asia.

Cara Cilano is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, USA. She has edited a collection of essays, From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the US (2009).

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National Identities in Pakistan
The 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction
Cara Cilano

National Identities in Pakistan

The 1971 war in contemporary
Pakistani fiction

Cara Cilano

First published 2011
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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2011 Cara Cilano

Typeset in Times New Roman by Taylor & Francis Books

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Cilano, Cara
National identities in Pakistan : the 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani
fiction / Cara Cilano.
p. cm. (Routledge contemporary South Asia series; 32)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Pakistani literature-20th century-History and criticism. 2. India-Pakistan
Conflict, 1971-Literature and the war. 3. Nationalism in literature. I. Title.
PK5416.C55 2011
820.995491-dc22 2010003866

ISBN 978-0-415-77958-6 (hbk)
ISBN 978-0-203-86538-5 (ebk)

to my parents, with love

Contents

Between the lines of every chapter of this book are my memories of the many people and places that have come into my life as I worked on this project. I would not have even undertaken this work had not my dear friend, Pascale Barthe, loaned me her copy of Noor, newly purchased from a bookshop in Lahore. Thank you, Pascale, for the loan and the many years of warm friendship and hospitality. Sohail Sukhera, my first Urduwallah, showed such epic patience while teaching me alif, be, etc., and for that as well as for the wonderful stories about his life in Pakistan and the many meals he shared with me I thank him.

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