Abstract:
This study closely reads Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden (2013) and
Mohammad Hanif’s Red Birds (2018) to focus on how representation of identity
fluctuation happens due to the 9/11 war on terror. The main goal of the research is to
explore how Aslam and Hanif have presented the identity issues in their writings and
connect the representations with the portrayal of similar issues in the broad domain of
Pakistani Anglophone fiction. The current research explores the portrayal of fluctuated
identities in post-9/11 literary writings, with close interpretation of The Blind Man’s
Garden and Red Birds. It examines the socio-political turmoil that changes the identities
of people reflects in Pakistani narratives. The current study examines the selected
writings, author's use of language, and the historical backdrop to construct fluctuated
identities of characters in the novels by using Close Reading Textual Analysis by
Catherine Belsey. This research employs the theoretical framework of postcolonial
studies and the perspective of identity by Homi. K Bhabha (1994). It focuses on how
identity plays vital role in the lives of people and how their identity changes over the
specific time, due to different situations. This study explores the deeper structure of the
selected texts by close reading technique and brings out the major thematic concerns of
the selected writings. It mainly focuses on the overall Pakistani narratives about identity
fluctuation, to connect it with novels chosen in order to make a new contribution to
research. This study contributes to understanding the influence of global happenings on
native identities and highlights the significance of literature in proposing dynamic
standpoints on socio-political disturbances in Pakistan and its literature
