| ID | 149786 |
| Title Proper | Muhajirs as a diaspora in Intizar Husain's the sea lies ahead and Kamila Shamsie's Kartography |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kumar, Priya |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This essay argues that diaspora is a useful analytical category for understanding certain migrant populations engendered by Partition, but not all Partition migrants can be designated as diasporas. Through a close reading of two novels—Intizar Husain's The Sea Lies Ahead (translated from the Urdu original Aage Samandar Hai by Rakhshanda Jalil) and Kamila Shamsie's Kartography—I show how Urdu-speaking migrants from India's Muslim minority provinces who migrated to the urban centres of Sindh have invented and preserved themselves as a diaspora in post-Partition Pakistan. Both novels enable us to see how Muhajirs have become a community based on a shared ideology of displacement that is kept alive in the group's memory. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 39, No.4; Dec 2016: p.855-872 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2016-12 39, 4 |
| Key Words | Diaspora ; Muhajirs ; Partition Literature ; Aage Samandar Hai (The Sea Lies Ahead) ; Intizar Husain ; Kamila Shamsie ; Kartography ; Pakistani Literature |