History, Memory, Fiction
New Dimensions in Contemporary Pakistani and Kashmiri Writings
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 26 February 2024
- ISBN 9780190708825
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 214x139x11 mm
- Weight 210 g
- Language English 609
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Short description:
History, Memory, Fiction examines several contemporary novels and memoirs of leading Pakistani and Kashmiri writers, considering them as historical fiction, in other words as works that are based on real-world facts, but as fiction are able to go further, ultimately creating a plausible story that might well be a true story.
MoreLong description:
History, Memory, Fiction proposes an examination of several contemporary novels and memoirs of leading Pakistani and Kashmiri writers, considering them as historical fiction, in other words as works that are based on real-world facts, but as fiction are able to go further in creating what have been called 'possible worlds', ultimately creating a plausible story that might well be a true story. By blurring the frontier between history and fiction, unconstrained by concerns of referential 'truth', these novels and memoirs are able to provide us with fresh insights and moral orientation while suggesting that the past?which is not the same as history?must be given meaning in our present if we wish to create better possible futures. Thus, these writers are engaged in active social critique, providing readers with a broader perspective of historical consciousness.
MoreTable of Contents:
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1Traumatic Experience, Crisis of Survival
The Exchange of Interconnected Histories in Soniah Kamals An Isolated Incident
Now and Then
Mirza Waheeds The Collaborator and the Contested History of a Place
Part 2Migration, Exclusion and the Enemy Withi
Personal and Political Displacement in Rafia Zakarias The Upstairs Wife
Life-writing and Cultural Memory
Basharat Peers Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love, and War in Kashmir
Neoliberal self-help and Water Resources
Mohsin Hamids How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Part 3Pakistan during the Afghan War
History, Legacy, and Contemporary Literary Representations
Cultural Understanding as Military Strategy
Mapping the Human Terrain in Nadeem Aslams The Wasted Vigil
Historiography and the Question of What Happened?
Uzma Aslam Khans The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
Part 4Exit West
The Making of a World
Snuffing Out the Moon
Kino/Bio Politics, Movement, and the State of Exception
Conclusion
Eventful History, Movement, and Social Mutation
Possible Futures
Works Cited
Copyright Acknowledgements
Index
