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