Partition fiction repeatedly forces characters to choose between homeland and Pakistan

Evidence

For example, in classic Partition narratives such as Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Ice Candy Man (London: Penguin, 1989) and the Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s celebrated short story “Toba Tek Singh” (1955, in Toba Tek Singh: Stories [New Delhi: Penguin India, 2011]) as well as in recent counterparts, such as Sorayya Y. Khan’s novel Five Queen’s Road (New Delhi: Penguin India, 2009), characters are forced to choose between their Indian homes and the new nation of Pakistan, with consequences for their well-being and even their lives. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 875

Categorization

• XREF: The forced-choice-between-worlds trope in Partition fiction maps onto the dilemma-of-belonging structure the reader is tracing in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Home Boy. — connects to: Imperial discourse splits South Asia into a celebrated India and a feared Pakistan; Pakistani fiction is inherently internationalist, facing at least two ways — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 392; Diasporic Pakistani novels seek alternatives to nation-based identification — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 392 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Imperial discourse splits South Asia into a celebrated India and a feared Pakistan; Pakistani fiction is inherently internationalist, facing at least two ways — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 392; Diasporic Pakistani novels seek alternatives to nation-based identification — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 392 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Pakistani fiction is inherently internationalist, facing at least two ways #complicates (0.78) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 392
• Diasporic Pakistani novels seek alternatives to nation-based identification #complicates (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 392