Trauma and Fictions of the “War on Terror” : Disrupting Memory

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Introduction
Transnational Memory Discourse
Transnationalism and the Post-9/11 Trauma Narrative
Media, Memory, and the "War on Terror"
Trauma and Post-9/11 Fiction from the Margins
Notes
References
1. Translating Trauma in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
Introduction
Bildungsroman
Trauma
Emigration to America
Witnessing and Return to Agency
Conclusion
Notes
References
2. Shared Graves: Empire and Trauma in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil
Introduction
Aslam as Transnational Writer
Sites of Memory and Trauma: The House
Lara, David, and the Cold War in Afghanistan
Post-9/11 Afghanistan: Casa, Dunia, and James
Conclusion: A Shared Grave
Notes
References
3. Haunted Communities: Tracing the Ghosts of the "War on Terror" in Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden
Introduction
9/11, Trauma and Worsening Global Relations—Aslam's Response
Missing in Afghanistan
The Brick Factory: Torture and Imperial Violence in Afghanistan
Ghost-Making and Haunted Communities: Mourning and Melancholia in Heer
Conclusion
Notes
References
4. Spectres of Empire in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows
Introduction
Kamila Shamsie as Transnational Writer
The Birth and Death of Empire: Nagasaki and the End of the British Raj
Legacies of Empire: Trauma, Family, and Language
Burnt Shadows: Ghosts, 9/11, and Paranoid Imperialism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Conclusion
Introduction
References
Index