Böcker av Cara Cilano

In 1971, a war in Pakistan resulted in the division of the country and the creation of Bangladesh. This book examines how literature by those who remained Pakistanis acts as a cultural response to the threat the war posed to a nationalist identity, exploring issues of the domestic sphere and the family, and the territorial limits of citizenship.

Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan examines post-9/11 American spy fictions alongside Pakistani novels that draw upon many of the same figures, tropes, and conventions. As the Pakistani texts re-place spy fiction¿s conventions, they offer another vantage point from which to view the affective appeals common to these conventions¿ usual deployment in American texts. This book argues that the appropriation by Pakistani writers of these conventions insistently tracks how the formulaic and popular nature of post-9/11 American espionage thrillers forwards and reinforces "appropriate" affective responses, often linked to domestic sites and relations, to "terrorism."