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Where Worlds Collide
Pakistan's current generation of English-language novelists, born after the 1971 war and writing in the twenty-first century, must navigate between the ancient cultural history they have inherited and the relative youth of their country as a political construct. In this book, Dr David Waterman explores the works of seven writers of this generation, including both residents of Pakistan and authors from the diaspora, in order to examine the manner in which questions of history, culture, and identity arise from this process. Pakistan's history and its present moment have introduced a number of issues of urgent relevance that these writers explore in very practical terms: What does it mean to be...
Disordered Bodies and Disrupted Borders
Exploring treatments of gender, madness, and the body in writings such as Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, George Orwell's Burmese Days, and Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, the author discusses how these and other writers revealed themselves as critics of British Imperial ideological constructs such as nationalism, racism, and the glory of war. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Pat Barker and the Mediation of Social Reality
"Pat Barker is one of the most compelling of the current generation of British novelists, especially in her use of the novel as an instrument of social critique, fashioning a literature which does not shy away from asking thorny questions, refusing the doctrinaire of what goes without saying, suspicious of simple answers. In this critical study, David Waterman examines questions of social representation in all of Pat Barker's novels, published over the last twenty-five years, from Union Street (1982) to the recent Life Class (2007), especially the ways in which Barker encourages us to interrogate the reality created by such conventionalizing, prescriptive representations in favor of a reality more accurately represented through a critical assessment of the uses and abuses of collective representations." --Book Jacket.
Identity in Doris Lessing's Space Fiction
In this study of identity in Doris Lessing's space fiction, Waterman maintains that Lessing's writing identifies the universal problem--society's division into competitive and predatory groups--and places it outside the bounds of time and space, encouraging a social critique.
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