The Blind Man's Garden
The Blind Man's Garden

Author: Nadeem Aslam

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2013-02-08

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 8184003919

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‘Love is not consolation, it is light’ From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil comes a novel set in the months after 9/11, when Western armies invaded Afghanistan—a story of love, hope and grief, of uncorrupted faith and of what it means to be alive. Jeo and his foster-brother Mikal leave their home in Pakistan to help care for wounded Afghans. Within hours of entering the wide-horizoned Afghan landscape, Mikal and Jeo are separated and, emerging from the carnage, Mikal begins his search for Jeo. But his deepest wish is to return home—to the young woman he loves and who loves him, Jeo’s wife. The Blind Man’s Garden maps a place both phantasmally beautiful and chilling. Taking us on a journey from Al Qaeda’s hideouts in Waziristan and American-built military prisons to a family left behind—Mikal’s and Jeo’s blind, regretful father, Jeo’s resolute wife and her superstitious mother—it unflinchingly examines war and brotherhood, devastation, separation and remorse, while celebrating the redemptive power of nature, art and literature.

Innovative Teaching Learning Practices: A Paradigm Shift
Innovative Teaching Learning Practices: A Paradigm Shift

Author: Prof. Dr. Pramod Kumar

Publisher: GLOBAL ACADEMY YAYINCILIK VE DANIŞMANLIK HİZMETLERİ SANAYİ TİCARET LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ

Published: 2023-12-28

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 6258284914

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Contents 1. Global and National Perspectives of Professional Preparation Physical Culture and Sport Masters Students in Pandemic Abdybekova Nurmira, Dzhalilova Baktykan, Ernazarova Ulpat & Mambetalieva Nurisa 2. Innovative Teaching-Learning Practices: A Paradigm Shift Sishanki Kashyap 3. Distant Educational Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching in Medical University Bayzhigitova A.A., Zamaletdinova G.S. & Dr. Karaeva Z. 4. Economic Evaluations of Health and Health Policy Biimyrsaeva Erkegul Mundusbekovna & Biimyrsaeva Aidana Kamchybekovna 5. Depicting Position of Women through Selected Poetry of A.K. Ramanujan Prof. (Dr.) Pramod Kumar & Ms. Harsheetaa Bhardwaj 6. Exploring the Dynamics of Dysfunctional Families in Mannu Bhandari’s the Tale of a Weak Girl Srishti Jalal & Prof. (Dr.) Pramod Kumar 7. Flipped Learning to Increase Students’ Motivation Zhyldyz Takenova 8. Evolution of Pedagogic Practices Dr. Brinda Chowdhari 9. Islamic Feminism in Nawal El Saadawi’s ‘Woman at Point Zero’ and Khaled Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ Dr. Rafraf Shakil Ansari 10. Value Orientations, the Impact of Satisfaction on a Person‘s Physical Health Kasymova Nazira Omurkulovna 11. Loneliness or Dysfunction: Mannu Bhandari’s The Lonely One Srishti Jalal & Prof. (Dr.) Pramod Kumar 12. Features of the Development of Intercultural Communication of Future Specialists Abdraeva Aigul Tolokovna, Sadykbek Kyzy Zhainagul & Sartbekova Nurzhan Koodoevna 13. The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Education in Kyrgyzstan: A Sociological Analysis Shaiyldaeva Asel, Mysakulova Guilnaz & Adina Azhigulova 14. Socialization and Optimization in Teaching of Foreign Students in a Medical University in Fundamental Disciplines Torokulova Sofiia, Chorov Mamatkan Jetimishevich & Saryeva Nurisa 15. Peculiarities of Adaptation and Teaching Fundamental Disciplines to Foreign Students in a Medical University Nurisa Saryeva, Sofiia Torokulova & Aizada Makeshova 16. Interconnectedness of Man and Nature in the Novel “The Living Mountain” by Amitav Ghosh Anna Lalzidingi & Prof. (Dr.) Pramod Kumar 17. Portrayal of Women in Bankim Chandra’s Novel ‘Rajmohan’s Wife’ Clara C Lalrinhlui & Prof. (Dr.) Pramod Kumar 18. Significance of Language in Ethnic Identification in West Africa Moustapha Aboubacar Diori & Dr. Brinda Chowdhari 19. The Status of English Language and its Influence in India Sagolsem Bonie Devi & Dr. Brinda Chowdhari 20. Teaching Drama: Innovative and Engaging Pedagogical Approaches Dr. Gurpyari Bhatnagar 21. A Representation of Bacha Baziin Afghan war Zones in Nadeem Aslam’s Blind Man’s Garden Shivangi Mavi & Dr. Pallavi Thakur

Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism
Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Author: Arin Keeble

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1474478697

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Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis of the ways novels from around the world have represented terrorism in the early twenty-first century. Over five chapters, he uncovers a movement away from event-based narratives toward depictions of terrorism as a violent symptom or feature of twenty-first century world-systems and neoliberalism. Beginning with the early literary response to 9/11 and the 9/11 novel genre, the book moves through more recent depictions of the endless 'war on terror', state terror, white nationalist terror and historical narratives of terror that resonate in the current political climate. In doing so, it examines the changing ways literature has sought to make sense of both the reasons why terrorism occurs and the effects it has on victims, survivors and international and intercultural relations.

Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction
Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

Author: A. Kanwal

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-09

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1137478446

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This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric. It uniquely links the post-9/11 stereotyping of Muslims and Islam in the West to the roots of current jihadism and the resurgence of ethnocentrism within the subcontinent and beyond.

Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror"
Trauma and Fictions of the

Author: Sarah O'Brien

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1000386422

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This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the "war on terror" to advocate for marginalised perspectives. Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" conceptualises global political discourse about the "war on terror" as incongruous, with transnational memory frames instituted in Western nations centralising 9/11 as uniquely traumatic, excluding the historical and present-day experiences of Afghans under Western—specifically American—hegemonic violence. Recent developments in trauma studies explain how dominant Western trauma theory participates in this exclusion, failing to account for the ongoing suffering common to non-Western, colonial, and postcolonial contexts. O’Brien explores how Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner), Nadeem Aslam (The Wasted Vigil, The Blind Man’s Garden), and Kamila Shamsie (Burnt Shadows) represent marginalised perspectives in the context of the "war on terror".

Imagining Afghanistan
Imagining Afghanistan

Author: Alla Ivanchikova

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 161249580X

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Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion—the era that propelled Afghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening “Afghanistan” has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition. “Afghanistan” serves as a lens through which contemporary cultural producers contend with the moral ambiguities of twenty-first-century humanitarianism, interpret the legacy of the Cold War, debate the role of the U.S. in the rise of transnational terror, and grapple with the long-term impact of war on both human and nonhuman ecologies. Post-9/11 global Afghanistan literary production remains largely NATO-centric insofar as it is marked by an uncritical investment in humanitarianism as an approach to Third World suffering and in anti-communism as an unquestioned premise. The book’s first half exposes how persisting anti-socialist biases—including anti-statist bias—not only shaped recent literary and visual texts on Afghanistan, resulting in a distorted portrayal of its tragic history, but also informed these texts’ reception by critics. In the book’s second half, the author examines cultural texts that challenge this limited horizon and forge alternative ways of representing traumatic histories. Captured by the author through the concepts of deep time, nonhuman witness, and war as a multispecies ecology, these new aesthetics bring readers a sophisticated portrait of Afghanistan as a rich multispecies habitat affected in dramatic ways by decades of war but not annihilated.

Narratives of the War on Terror
Narratives of the War on Terror

Author: Michael C. Frank

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1000073750

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Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the field, this volume brings together essays on a wide array of literary, filmic and journalistic responses to the decade-long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shifting the focus from so-called 9/11 literature to narratives of the war on terror, and from the transatlantic world to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Afghan-Pak border region, South Waziristan, Al-Andalus and Kenya, the book captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency. These include, but are not restricted to, the realignment of geopolitical power relations; the formation of new terrorist networks (ISIS) and regional alliances (Iraq/Syria); the growing number of terrorist incidents in the West; the changing discourses on security and technologies of warfare; and the leveraging of fundamental constitutional principles. The essays featured in this volume draw upon, and critically engage with, the conceptual trajectories within American literary debates, postcolonial discourse and transatlantic literary criticism. Collectively, they move away from the trauma-centrism and residual US-centrism of early literary responses to 9/11 and the criticism thereon, while responding to postcolonial theory’s call for a historical foregrounding of terrorism, insurgency and armed violence in the colonial-imperial power nexus. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

The Diaspora Writes Home
The Diaspora Writes Home

Author: Jasbir Jain

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-13

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9811048460

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This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts. Amongst the questions this book asks is, ‘how does the diaspora relate to their home, and what is the homeland's relationship to the diaspora as representatives of the contemporary homeland in another country?’. The last is an interesting point of discussion since the 'present' of the homeland and of the diaspora cannot be equated. The transformations that new locations have brought about as migrants have travelled through time and interacted with the politics of their settled lands---Africa, Fiji, the Caribbean Islands, the UK, the US, Canada, as well as the countries created out of British India, such as Pakistan and Bangladesh---have altered their affiliations and perspectives. This book gathers multiple dispersions of emigrant writers and artistes from South Asia across time and space to the various homelands they relate to now. The word ‘write’ is used in its multiplicity to refer to creative expression, as an inscription, as connectivity, and remembrance. Writing is also a representation and carries its own baggage of poetics and aesthetics, categories which need to be problematised vis-à-vis the writer and his/her emotional location.