TERORIZAM IZMEĐU SLIJEPE MRŽNJE I IDEOLOGIJE U NADEEM ASLAMOVOM ROMANU THE WASTED VIGIL
TERRORISM BETWEEN BLIND HATRED AND IDEOLOGY IN NADEEM ASLAM’S THE WASTED VIGIL

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I discuss the novel as a specific mixture of story and history offering a number of answers to the questions pertaining to the Soviet and American imperialist ambitions and the role they have played in making Afghanistan a foundry of ideas in which the greatest trauma of the new millennium is thought to be rooted as well as a site of challenging fixed identity boundaries, a consequence of encounters and exchanges these ambitions have made possible.In a plethora of propagandist writings, whose primary aim was to create a distance between ‘us’ and ‘the other’ by means of (re)establishing essentialist binaries, Nadeem Aslam’s third novel The Wasted Vigil (2008) needs to be appreciated as a significant literary contribution to the attempts at understanding Islamic terrorism and all too ignored historical and political conditions that have defined it.

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