The University of Manchester

Graduate Student, English and American Studies

Thesis Title: Persisting Partition: Gender, Memory, Trauma and Affect in women’s narratives of Pakistan

About

My thesis is centred on evocations of the Partition of India in women’s narratives of Pakistan and focuses on gender, trauma and affect. My methodology considers Partition as a geographical and psychical trauma that formed gendered national subjects. I have a particular focus on postcolonial feminist theory as the thesis unpicks the gendered performance and memorialisation of nationhood. 

I am currently expanding the geo-political focus of my research to engage with the historical persistence of colonial discourse especially as it pertains to expressions of and attitudes towards gender and sexuality, in both colonial discourses and postcolonial writing. To this end I continue to engage widely with postcolonial theory and its interdisciplinary applications as well as world literatures and critical theories of gender, memory, transnationalism and globalisation.