The physical body marked by radical experience is what lies at the heart of Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. In an interview hosted by Picador USA, she stated that the catalyst for the book was an image she came across in a book on Hiroshima of the back of a woman branded with the pattern of the kimono she was wearing when the blast took place. In her interview, Shamsie said that, while writing the novel, she was interested in how “people from different places carry with them the history of where they are from” and through this wanted to look at the “interplay of history and personal lives”. Burnt Shadows does not only cover a significant span of time, from the bombing of Nagasaki to a post-9/11 context, but also explores a number of places...
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This article examines the novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid and Burnt Shado...
This thesis reveals the changing of identity of Palestinian woman in one small village called West B...
This thesis examines the workings of “home” for the displaced individual in contemporary contexts: w...
Kamila Shamsie’s novel, Burnt Shadows, is a riveting rendition of lost homelands, resilience, new be...
The paper discusses the processes of identity construction enacted by the main character in the nove...
Past and present postmodern nomadic epistemologies as well as the gendered dimensions of nomadism ha...
This paper explores the forces of nationalism and transnationalism and examines the ways in which th...
The present study is aimed to trace out the diasporic representation in Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows with...
'Hungry Ghosts' is an account of thirty-six hours of a young woman's life following her arrival in S...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the ‘diasporic consciousness ‘of the fictional character...
Global terrorism is a complex phenomenon, its roots going back to long before the terrorist attacks ...
Migration is one of the most signifi cant existential experiences of the century. In her novel, Rest...
This thesis investigates the relationship between imperial geopolitics and Islam in Burnt Shadows (2...
Kanza Javed in her novel Ashes, Wine and Dust exposes the bitter reality that is often faced by the ...
My novel \u27The True Body\u27 is concerned with how individuals inhabit their bodies and how they t...
This article examines the novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid and Burnt Shado...
This thesis reveals the changing of identity of Palestinian woman in one small village called West B...
This thesis examines the workings of “home” for the displaced individual in contemporary contexts: w...