A Paracolonial Comparative Exegesis of Post 911 Pakistani and Indian Anglophone Diaspora Fiction

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dc.contributor.authorAyesha Perveen
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-31T13:23:11Z
dc.date.available2025-07-31T13:23:11Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis thesis compares post 9/11 Pakistani and Indian diaspora Anglophone fiction by excavating the fictional response to ever-changing international political scenario and its impact on both the countries after 9/11. Pakistan and India, who are neighbours with a troubled history, have been evolving as nation-states in different directions since independence, which also paved way for different literary trajectories for their literature written in English. Whereas early post-partition writings are replete with the fictional representation of the 1947 partition and assertion of unique national identities confronting British legacy; post 9/11 fiction explores issues like the impact of war on terror on identity and ethnicity, individuality and hybridity, religion and culture, challenges faced by the contemporary diaspora, and the problematization of a sense of belonging in a transnational globalized world. This thesis aims to compare the identity formation of the characters as presented in Indian and Pakistani post 9/11 diaspora Anglophone fiction by employing James Marcia’s theory of identity development. The impact of post 9/11 terror on Indian and Pakistani diaspora in a globalized and transnational world is discussed by highlighting their evolution from directionless ambivalent subjectivities to decisive individuals.
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/4246
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUMT, Lahore
dc.titleA Paracolonial Comparative Exegesis of Post 911 Pakistani and Indian Anglophone Diaspora Fiction
dc.typeThesis
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