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Title The Economy of Slippage and Morphing: Tracing Configurations of Diasporic Identities in Indian and Pakistani Anglophone Fiction

Author(s) Hassan Bin Zubair

Abstract THESIS TITLE: THE ECONOMY OF SLIPPAGE AND MORPHING: TRACING CONFIGURATIONS OF DIASPORIC IDENTITIES IN INDIAN AND PAKISTANI ANGLOPHONE FICTION This dissertation is a comparative study of Indian and Pakistani selected diasporic Anglophone fiction. It enquires completely different settings created on the thematic basis of gender, religious identities, economic and political issues, marriage and culture. A common thread running through the selected novels is to capture the essence of transnational and transcultural struggles over issues of identity in terms of race, class, nationality and gender. It highlights the significance of cultural varieties to establish one’s identity as well as to affirm that migrant identity is not a given but rather a product of lived reality, something always in process in a culturally hybrid world. Pakistani Anglophone fiction writers deal with the themes of religious identities, economic and political concerns in their diasporic fiction, while Indian diasporic fiction writers have the thematic basis of marriage, culture, and nationality in a liminal cultural space, but the transnationals from both countries feel the same sort of effects of hybrid culture. Multiple theoretical angularities from Homi K. Bhabha, Arjun Appadurai and James Clifford form the theoretical framework for this study. The findings of the study underlines the ideology, distinct way of thinking, and theme selection of diasporic writers of Pakistan and India that the difference which occurred at the time of partition of India. These differences in ideologies and theme selection in the writings of diasporic writers still exist. The comparative study brought to light the distinct diasporic characteristics in Indian and Pakistani Anglophone fiction.

Type Thesis/Dissertation PhD

Faculty Languages

Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2023-01-31

Subject PhD English Literature

Publisher PhD

Contributor(s) Dr. Nighat Ahmad

Format PDF

Identifier PhD

Source PhD

Relation PhD

Coverage PhD

Rights PhD

Category PhD English Literature Thesis

Description PhD English Literature Thesis