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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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4295 |