Kusum Ghimire

Narrating the Fragmented Nation: Shame, Hybridity, and National Identity in Salman Rushdie’s Shame

This article analyzes how Salman Rushdie’s novel Shame transforms shame from a private space into a public domain, where it becomes a collective discourse that reveals the instability of postcolonial national identity in Pakistan. While existing scholarship has emphasized the novel’s political satire, feminist concerns...