000			02054 a2200181 4500
020			_a9780415779586 (hardcover)
082			_a820.995491 _bCIN
100	1		_aCilano, Cara. _9177094
245	1	0	_aNational identities in Pakistan _b: the 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction _cCara Cilano.
260			_aLondon: _bRoutledge, _c2010.
300			_ax, 176 p.
490	1		_aRoutledge contemporary south asia series.
520			_aIn 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			_aPakistani literature-20th century-History and criticism. _9177095
650			_aIndia-Pakistan conflict, 1971-Literature and the war _9177096
650			_aNationalism in literature _9177097
942			_cBK
999			_c62828 _d62828