Table Of ContentRethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction
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Rethinking Identities
in Contemporary
Pakistani Fiction
Beyond 9/11
Aroosa Kanwal
International Islamic University, Pakistan
© 2015 Aroosa Kanwal
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For my parents
I certainly could not have done it without their support
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Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
1 How the World Changed: Narratives of Nationhood
and Displaced Muslim Identities 18
2 Responding to 9/11: Contextualising the Subcontinent
and Beyond 73
3 Re-imagining Home Spaces: Pre- and Post-9/11
Constructions of Home and Pakistani Muslim Identity 112
4 Global Ummah: Negotiating Transnational Muslim Identities 157
Coda: Re-imagining Pakistan 198
Notes 201
Bibliography 208
Index 219
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Acknowledgements
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds
I am indebted to numerous people for their support during the writ-
ing of this book. For its early intellectual formations, I am particularly
thankful to Dr Lindsey Moore, my exemplary PhD advisor at the
University of Lancaster, UK, whose invaluable critique, gentle wisdom
and great patience forced me to explain myself more fully; I have learnt
so much from you. I am also indebted to Dr Claire Chambers for her
intellectual feedback and valuable suggestions, prompting me to look at
aspects I would otherwise have missed. Special thanks to Dr Sarah Post
for her advice to improve the Introduction. On a personal note, I am
especially grateful to Professor Lynne Pearce for her constant support,
encouragement and for the prompt communication at all times, from
the time of writing the book proposal to the completion of the manu-
script. I owe particular thanks to Alan McIntosh and Palgrave editors
Benjamin Doyle and Tomas Rene for their patient guidance.
I would like to thank my mother and father for their unfaltering sup-
port, love and prayers. Without their encouragement and help I would
not have been able to write this book. My thanks are due to my fam-
ily for the co-operation and help they extended to me throughout my
research work.
I feel very lucky to have Professor S.M.A. Rauf as my mentor. I would
particularly like to thank him for inspiring me to pursue my ambitions.
I also owe a special thank you to Dr Hassan Ahmed not only for the
laborious task of editing my work but also for supporting me in all ways
to bring this book to its final fruition. Many thanks to Valerie Smith for
rich and friendly intellectual debates. I am so grateful to both of you for
lifting my spirits, and for too many other things to enumerate.
Thanks to Lucy Perry for all the motivation and inspiration. I am very
grateful to Waleed and Ahmed for endless discussions on politics and
history. I would like to extend my gratitude beyond the academic circle
to thank Paula, Vijaya, Novida, Maria, Tajmina, Saiyma, Nighat, Komal,
Sofia, Amal and Uzma for their prayers, best wishes and ever-present
support. A special note of thanks goes to all those colleagues and stu-
dents at International Islamic University not named here, but who gave
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me strength and motivation throughout. Thanks to Dr Munazza Yaqoob
for making my return to the university easier for me.
A part of Chapter 3 was published as “After 9/11: Islamophobia in
Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows” in Imagining Muslims
in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations, ed. by
Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert (UK: Routledge, 2014) 185–197.
A shorter version of a section in Chapter 4 was published as “After
9/11: Trauma, Memory, Melancholia and National Consciousness” in
Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2011, ed. by Daniel Meyer-
Dinkgräfe (UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012) 57–66. I am
grateful to Routledge and Cambridge Scholars Publishing for permissions
to reproduce the copyright material.
