Shared graves
Empire and trauma in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2179227 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Sarah O’ Brien |
| Ano | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 240-252 |
| Data de publicação | 2019-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2018.1526103 |
| OpenAlex | W2896343804 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 9 |
British Pakistani author Nadeem Aslam published his third novel, The Wasted Vigil, in 2008. Set in post-9/11, this novel traces Afghanistan’s turbulent past as a nation caught in the crosshairs of conflicts between global powers. Read as “world literature”, The Wasted Vigil maps the connection between violence wrought by an emergent American hegemony in Afghanistan during the Cold War and the resultant emergence of extremist groups, leading to the post-9/11 invasion. This article frames The Wasted Vigil within current debates in the field of trauma studies that problematize the Euro-American-centric approach to trauma emerging from non-western conflict zones. It argues that through the representation of a recalcitrant and omnipresent cultural trauma that is unaccounted for by contemporary media frames and embodied in this novel by both the physical landscape and Afghan characters of various backgrounds, Aslam succeeds in highlighting the impact of the US presence in Afghanistan during the Cold War
Afghan · Ancient history · Archaeology · Cold war · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Vigil · Irish and British Studies · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · History · Law
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,17 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |