1st Edition
Thinking Past ‘Post-9/11’ Home, Nation and Transnational Desires in Pakistani English Novels and Hindi Films
Introduction Part I – Framing the Nexus: The Prism of 9/11 1. Thinking Diaspora, (De) Constructing Nation, Home and Identity 2. Surveying South Asian Diasporic Texts and Contexts through the Prism of ‘9/11’ Part II – Exploring the Nexus: The First Decade after 9/11 3. How did it come to this? Reconfiguring Borders in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Burnt Shadows 4. Post-9/11 Diasporic Anxieties in New York and My Name is Khan Part III – Expanding the Nexus: The Second Decade after 9/11 5. Thinking Past ‘Post-9/11’, The Discourse of Insecurity in Exit West and Home Fire 6. Long-Distance Nationalisms and Populist Politics in in AirLift and Tiger Zinda Hai Conclusion
Biography
Jayana Jain is a postdoctoral researcher in the ONLINERPOL project at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Her research and teaching interests include diaspora and migration studies, South Asian literary and visual cultures, gender and disability studies, digital politics and media studies. She has been awarded the European Union’s Marie Curie Fellowship and DAAD scholarship to conduct research on South Asian diasporas and migrants. She has also served as a lecturer of English and postcolonial studies at the University of Münster, Germany.
