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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.
Sommario
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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- 1: Part 1Traumatic Experience, Crisis of Survival
- The Exchange of Interconnected Histories in Soniah Kamals An Isolated Incident
- 2: Now and Then
- Mirza Waheeds The Collaborator and the Contested History of a Place
- 3: Part 2Migration, Exclusion and the Enemy Withi
- Personal and Political Displacement in Rafia Zakarias The Upstairs Wife
- 4: Life-writing and Cultural Memory
- Basharat Peers Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love, and War in Kashmir
- 5: Neoliberal self-help and Water Resources
- Mohsin Hamids How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- 6: Part 3Pakistan during the Afghan War
- History, Legacy, and Contemporary Literary Representations
- 7: Cultural Understanding as Military Strategy
- Mapping the Human Terrain in Nadeem Aslams The Wasted Vigil
- 8: Historiography and the Question of What Happened?
- Uzma Aslam Khans The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
- 9: Part 4Exit West
- The Making of a World
- 10: Snuffing Out the Moon
- Kino/Bio Politics, Movement, and the State of Exception
- Conclusion
- 11: Eventful History, Movement, and Social Mutation
- Possible Futures
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- Works Cited
- Copyright Acknowledgements
- Index
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David Waterman is currently Professor at the University of La Rochelle, France, where he is a member of the research team at the Center for Research in International and Atlantic History (CRHIA), Co-director of the doctoral program, Euclide and Director of the Asia Pacific Institute.
His publications include,
Where Worlds Collide : Pakistani Fiction in the New Millennium (OUP, 2014),
Pat Barker and the Mediation of Social Reality (2009),
Identity in Doris Lessings Space Fiction (2006),
Disordered Bodies and Disrupted Borders : Representations of Resistance in Modern British Literature (1999).
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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.
