Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography and the Itinerary of Cultural Identity: Mapping Traumatic Experience within the “Canker” of History Keep moving, it’s not our destination, yet…♦ Faiz Ahmed Faiz

In Kamila Shamsie's 2002 novel, the 1971 Pakistan civil war becomes the traumatic experience which is everyone's psychological benchmark, even for those not yet born -- the young protagonists wonder “Is it shame at losing the war, or guilt about what we did to try to win that mutes us?”, a...

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Main Author: David Waterman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2015-10-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4295
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