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CONCEPT OF NATIONALISM EMPLOYED IN THE GOLDEN LEGEND BY NADEEM ASLAM
Corresponding Author(s) : Shaista Shahzadi
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews,
Vol. 9 No. 3 (2021): May
Abstract
Purpose of the study: The main purpose of this study is to analyze the novel The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam in the light of the concept of Nationalism given by Benedict Anderson in Imagined communities.
Methodology: The entire data is evaluated by the entire text related to nationalism. This research is based on qualitative research skills. The basic resource of this research is the novel of Nadeem Aslam, named The Golden Legend. Further, the other resources used in this research are the journals or the articles regarding or reflecting the explanation of this novel (The Golden Legend).
Main Findings: The findings depict a wonderful series of characters who have humanity in their hearts; they have love and respect for others, either the other person is from their religion or a different one. It is a story of sorrow and the game of religions in the world which is being played under the acts of the political authorities.
Applications of this study: This study can be applied to the nationalism literature.
Novelty/Originality of this study: The study is one of its kind because, after a careful analysis of the literature available, it is safe to say that no study is done up till now on analyzing the concept of nationalism in the Golden Legend.
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- Anderson, B. (2001). Asian Nationalism? New Left Review, 9, 31.
- Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Verso books.
- Aslam, N. (2017). The Golden Legend: A Novel. Vintage.
- Brians, P. (2003). Modern South Asian Literature in English. Greenwood Publishing Group.
- Butt, N. (2008). Between orthodoxy and modernity: Mapping the transcultural predicaments of Pakistani immigrants in multi-ethnic Britain in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for lost lovers (2004). In Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ (pp. 153-169). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401206587_012 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401206587_012
- Calhoun, C. (2016). The importance of imagined communities–and Benedict Anderson. Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat, 1. https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats.130-1.2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-en.2016-1
- Chambers, C. (2011). A comparative approach to Pakistani fiction in English. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47(2), 122-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.557182 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.557182
- Cilano, C. (2009). “Writing from Extreme Edgesâ€: Pakistani English-Language Fiction. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 40(2-3).
- Cilano, C. (2013). Contemporary Pakistani fiction in English: Idea, nation, state. Routledge. https://doi.org/1 0.4324/9780203552247 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203552247
- Clements, M. (2013). Orienting Muslims: Mapping global spheres of affiliation and affinity in contemporary South Asian fiction (Doctoral dissertation, University of East London).
- Desai, R. (2008). Review Essay: The inadvertence of Benedict Anderson: A review essay of Imagined Communities on the occasion of a new edition. Global Media and Communication, 4(2), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766508091519 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766508091519
- Desai, R. (2009). The inadvertence of Benedict Anderson: engaging imagined communities. The Asia-Pacific Journal, 11(51), 2-9.
- du Dot, M. J. (2019). Mapping the unstable: the Af-Pak border and its tropes in Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden (2013). Représentations dans le monde anglophone,1.
- Flannery, E. (2013). Internationalizing 9/11: Hope And Redemption In Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil (2008) And Colum Mccann's Let The Great World Spin (2009). English, 62(238), 294-315. https://doi.org /10.1093/english/eft010 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/english/eft010
- Ivanchikova, A. (2017). Imagining Afghanistan in deep time: Nadeem Aslam and the aesthetics of the geologic turn. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 63(2), 288-311. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2017.0023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2017.0023
- Kaur, S. (2018). Contesting the Myth of Purity: An Analysis of Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend in the light of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Insight. The Vedic Path, 93(4), 51-75.
- Lemke, C. (2008). Racism in the diaspora: Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for lost lovers (2004). In Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ (pp. 171-183). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401206587_013 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401206587_013
- Liaqat, Q., & Raza, A. (2020). Diasporic Intertextual Musings: The Relevance of Classical Urdu Poetry to Contemporary Pakistani Situation in Nadeem Aslam's The Golden Legend. NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 18(1).
- Miller, B. (2019). Reading as Resistance. The Comparatist, 43, 341-355. https://doi.org/10.1353/com.201 9.0018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0018
- Moore, L. (2009). British Muslim identities and spectres of terror in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers. Postcolonial Text, 5(2).
- Morey, P. (2018). Chapter Six. Islamophobia and the Global Novel: "Worlding" History in Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie. In Islamophobia and the Novel (pp. 183-210). Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/more17774-008 DOI: https://doi.org/10.7312/more17774-008
- Nazir, B. (2020). Brand Pakistan: a reception-oriented study of Pakistani Anglophone fiction: a dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature at Massey University, Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand. Currently unavailable until further notice (Doctoral dissertation, Massey University).
- Rahman, S. (2020). Animals, others, and postcolonial ecomasculinities: Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 0021989420952125. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989 420952125 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989420952125
- Rahman, T. (2020). Pakistani English. The Handbook of Asian Englishes, 279-296. https://doi.org/10.1002/9 781118791882.ch11 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118791882.ch11
- Scanlan, M. (2018). Transparency into opacity: Nadeem Aslam’s alternative to the 9/11 novel. European Journal of English Studies, 22(2), 103-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2018.1478254 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2018.1478254
- Shamsie, M. (2017). Pakistani-English Writing. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.69 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.69
- Shoaib, M. (2020). Imprecise Attacks, Invisible Victims: Representation of Drone Warfare in Selected Post-9/11 Pakistani Fiction. Journal of Research in Humanities, 56(2), 31-44.
- Smith, A. D. (2000). TheSacred'Dimension of Nationalism. Millennium, 29(3), 791-814. https://doi.org/10.1 177/03058298000290030301 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298000290030301
- Sukheeja, V. (2017). Violence and Hope in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend. Language in India, 17(12).
- Veyret, P. (2021). Fractured territories: Deterritorializing the contemporary Pakistani novel in English. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 56(2), 307-321. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989418808039 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989418808039
References
Anderson, B. (2001). Asian Nationalism? New Left Review, 9, 31.
Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Verso books.
Aslam, N. (2017). The Golden Legend: A Novel. Vintage.
Brians, P. (2003). Modern South Asian Literature in English. Greenwood Publishing Group.
Butt, N. (2008). Between orthodoxy and modernity: Mapping the transcultural predicaments of Pakistani immigrants in multi-ethnic Britain in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for lost lovers (2004). In Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ (pp. 153-169). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401206587_012 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401206587_012
Calhoun, C. (2016). The importance of imagined communities–and Benedict Anderson. Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat, 1. https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats.130-1.2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-en.2016-1
Chambers, C. (2011). A comparative approach to Pakistani fiction in English. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47(2), 122-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.557182 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.557182
Cilano, C. (2009). “Writing from Extreme Edgesâ€: Pakistani English-Language Fiction. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 40(2-3).
Cilano, C. (2013). Contemporary Pakistani fiction in English: Idea, nation, state. Routledge. https://doi.org/1 0.4324/9780203552247 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203552247
Clements, M. (2013). Orienting Muslims: Mapping global spheres of affiliation and affinity in contemporary South Asian fiction (Doctoral dissertation, University of East London).
Desai, R. (2008). Review Essay: The inadvertence of Benedict Anderson: A review essay of Imagined Communities on the occasion of a new edition. Global Media and Communication, 4(2), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766508091519 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766508091519
Desai, R. (2009). The inadvertence of Benedict Anderson: engaging imagined communities. The Asia-Pacific Journal, 11(51), 2-9.
du Dot, M. J. (2019). Mapping the unstable: the Af-Pak border and its tropes in Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden (2013). Représentations dans le monde anglophone,1.
Flannery, E. (2013). Internationalizing 9/11: Hope And Redemption In Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil (2008) And Colum Mccann's Let The Great World Spin (2009). English, 62(238), 294-315. https://doi.org /10.1093/english/eft010 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/english/eft010
Ivanchikova, A. (2017). Imagining Afghanistan in deep time: Nadeem Aslam and the aesthetics of the geologic turn. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 63(2), 288-311. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2017.0023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2017.0023
Kaur, S. (2018). Contesting the Myth of Purity: An Analysis of Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend in the light of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Insight. The Vedic Path, 93(4), 51-75.
Lemke, C. (2008). Racism in the diaspora: Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for lost lovers (2004). In Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ (pp. 171-183). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401206587_013 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401206587_013
Liaqat, Q., & Raza, A. (2020). Diasporic Intertextual Musings: The Relevance of Classical Urdu Poetry to Contemporary Pakistani Situation in Nadeem Aslam's The Golden Legend. NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 18(1).
Miller, B. (2019). Reading as Resistance. The Comparatist, 43, 341-355. https://doi.org/10.1353/com.201 9.0018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0018
Moore, L. (2009). British Muslim identities and spectres of terror in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers. Postcolonial Text, 5(2).
Morey, P. (2018). Chapter Six. Islamophobia and the Global Novel: "Worlding" History in Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie. In Islamophobia and the Novel (pp. 183-210). Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/more17774-008 DOI: https://doi.org/10.7312/more17774-008
Nazir, B. (2020). Brand Pakistan: a reception-oriented study of Pakistani Anglophone fiction: a dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature at Massey University, Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand. Currently unavailable until further notice (Doctoral dissertation, Massey University).
Rahman, S. (2020). Animals, others, and postcolonial ecomasculinities: Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 0021989420952125. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989 420952125 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989420952125
Rahman, T. (2020). Pakistani English. The Handbook of Asian Englishes, 279-296. https://doi.org/10.1002/9 781118791882.ch11 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118791882.ch11
Scanlan, M. (2018). Transparency into opacity: Nadeem Aslam’s alternative to the 9/11 novel. European Journal of English Studies, 22(2), 103-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2018.1478254 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2018.1478254
Shamsie, M. (2017). Pakistani-English Writing. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.69 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.69
Shoaib, M. (2020). Imprecise Attacks, Invisible Victims: Representation of Drone Warfare in Selected Post-9/11 Pakistani Fiction. Journal of Research in Humanities, 56(2), 31-44.
Smith, A. D. (2000). TheSacred'Dimension of Nationalism. Millennium, 29(3), 791-814. https://doi.org/10.1 177/03058298000290030301 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298000290030301
Sukheeja, V. (2017). Violence and Hope in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend. Language in India, 17(12).
Veyret, P. (2021). Fractured territories: Deterritorializing the contemporary Pakistani novel in English. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 56(2), 307-321. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989418808039 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989418808039