A Study of Nomadism and Rhizomatic Consciousness in Kamila Shamsie’s <em>Burnt Shadows</em>
Past and present postmodern nomadic epistemologies as well as the gendered dimensions of nomadism have often served as intellectual sites of resistance to destabilize totalizing hegemonies and ideologies often sustained in the name of nation-states and nationalisms. In this context, this study trace...
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IntechOpen
2023
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| Sumario: | Past and present postmodern nomadic epistemologies as well as the gendered dimensions of nomadism have often served as intellectual sites of resistance to destabilize totalizing hegemonies and ideologies often sustained in the name of nation-states and nationalisms. In this context, this study traces the nomadic post/trans-national ventures of Shamsie’s protagonist Hiroko Tanaka, in Burnt Shadows, that define her life in an anti-genealogical spatial stance akin to rhizomatic existence rather than in a chronological temporal frame. For this purpose, this research employs Braidotti’s notion of nomadic subjects as nomadic polyglots along with Deleuze and Guattari’s conceptualization of nomads as war machines external to the state apparatus. Through the multiple geographical, cultural, national displacements and the resultant nomadic becoming experienced by her protagonist, Shamsie seems to question the relevance of nationalism as an over-arching grand narrative in the works of second-generation writers of Pakistani origin. And by contextualizing her work as a tale of spatiality rather than of temporality, Shamsie seems to map the alternative fictional terrain of history, which is not concerned with the chronological mapping of national spaces; it is rather concerned with discovering new forms of nomadic interconnectedness without being bound to a single space or teleological purpose. |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-80355-951-3 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.110904 |