Abstract
Contemporai y Pakistan i novel in English has shown a marked shift in its concern since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on history and politics through the pri.em of the Cold War, it deals with the predicament oJ laymen in Pakistan. Standing tall in this particular line of Pakistani
novelists, Nadeem Aslam concerns himself primarily with the calamities confronted by a wretched people and their land devastated by the global disputes during the Cold War and the War on Teri or. This paper foregrounds Aslam’s focus on the political and socio-cultural consequences of the Cold War on Pakistani society. It explores how the broad historical trilogy of change, continuity and confiict negotiates in his Season of the Rain birds. The novel debuts Aslam’s depiction of the
thematic trilogy expanded in his later work. Contending that the impact of the Cold War on people and .society in Pakistan has often been disregarded in Pakistan's national narrative, this paper explores how Aslam re-imagines these predicaments in Season of the Rain birds.
Syed Hanif Rasool, ,Abdus Salam Khalis’. (2019) Reimagining the Cold War: Change, Continuity and Conflict in Nadeem Aslam's Season of the Rain Birds, The Dialogue, Volume 14, Issue 4.
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