03248cam a22003018i 4500 38287 38287 9781032234335 eng. 823.92093581 JAI-T Jain, Jayana author. Thinking past 'post-9/11' : home, nation and transnational desires in Pakistani English novels and Hindi films / Jayana Jain. South Asia Edition. New Delhi : Routledge, 2022. 224p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Framing the Nexus: The Prism of 9/11. Thinking Diaspora, (De) Constructing Nation, Home and Identity -- Surveying South Asian Diasporic Texts and Contexts through the Prism of '9/11' -- Exploring the Nexus: The First Decade after 9/11. How did it come to this? Reconfiguring Borders in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Burnt Shadows -- Post-9/11 Diasporic Anxieties in New York and My Name is Khan -- Expanding the Nexus: The Second Decade after 9/11. Thinking Past 'Post-9/11', The Discourse of Insecurity in Exit West and Home Fire -- Long-Distance Nationalisms and Populist Politics in in AirLift and Tiger Zinda Hai -- Conclusion. "This book offers new ways of constellating the literary and cinematic delineations of Indian and Pakistani Muslim diasporic and migrant trajectories narrated in the two decades after the 9/11 attacks. Focusing on four Pakistani English novels and four Indian Hindi films, it examines the aesthetic complexities of staging the historical nexus of global conflicts and unravels the multiple layers of discourses underlying the notions of diaspora, citizenship, nation and home. It scrutinises the "flirtatious" nature of transnational desires and their role in building glocal safety valves for inclusion and archiving a planetary vision of trauma. It also provides a fresh perspective on the role of Pakistani English novels and mainstream Hindi films in tracing the multiple origins and shifts in national xenophobic practices, and negotiating multiple modalities of political and cultural belonging. It discusses various books and films including The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Burnt Shadows, My Name is Khan, New York, Exit West, Home Fire, AirLift and Tiger Zinda Hai. In light of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 attacks, current debates on terror, war, paranoid national imaginaries and the suspicion towards migratory movements of refugees, this book makes a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary debates on border controls and human precarity. A crucial work in transnational and diaspora criticism, it will be of great interest to researchers of literature and culture studies, media studies, politics, film studies, and South Asian studies"-- English. Pakistani fiction (English) History and criticism. Motion pictures India History. Security (Psychology) in literature. Nationalism in literature. Politics in literature. Security (Psychology) in motion pictures. Nationalism in motion pictures. Politics in motion pictures. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Influence. ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2023-03-16 Overseas 0.00 0 823.92093581 JAI-T 52898 2023-05-22 00:00:00 0.00 2023-05-22 BK