Islamization and Resistance in SAARC Literature in English.

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Exploiting religious sentiments of the polity and maneuvering nationalistic fervor for political power have been prevailing issues in contemporary Era of ideological anarchy. Most of the countries have been struggling in sustaining democratically constitutional governance owing to prevailing bipolar consciousness of the people. The terms Nationalist and Secular, which were previously referential to respected freedom fighters and rational persons, are now employed to abuse the particular ideologues. The political consciousness dominant in SAARC nations mark a struggle between two extremes: nationalistic ideologies that accentuate the revival of ancient history of the nation in the modern time demanding the assertion of religious identity of the nation and secularist ideologies that emphasize constitutional implications reacting against the nationalistic fervor. The SAARC writing in English discourse the aforementioned bipolar anticipations in the context of rationalizing the entire process of nation building. This paper is an attempt to examine the rational anticipations in against the religious extremism – specifically Islamic fundamentalism and the entire process of Islamization discoursed in literature of SAARC nations, Pakistan. Analyzing an eminent text: The Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie from Pakistan, this paper attempts to examine the process of Islamization and reactionary anticipation of the protagonist with a view to unravel genuinely rational anticipation in against the religious fervor.

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