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02054 a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780415779586 (hardcover) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
820.995491 |
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CIN |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cilano, Cara. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
National identities in Pakistan |
| Sub Title |
: the 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Cara Cilano. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
London: |
| Name of publisher |
Routledge, |
| Year of publication |
2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
x, 176 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Routledge contemporary south asia series. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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 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 in 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 author's 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Pakistani literature-20th century-History and criticism. |
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| Topical Term |
India-Pakistan conflict, 1971-Literature and the war |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Nationalism in literature |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |