Ayesha Perveen2025-07-312025-07-312021https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/4246This 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.enThesis