ABSTRACT
In Pakistan, there exists a public ‘amnesia’ over the brutal conflict of 1971 and the loss of half a country, East Pakistan (which became an independent Bangladesh). These traumatic events have yet to be addressed at a national level, but they are being tackled increasingly in Pakistani anglophone fiction. This chapter explores this valuable body of work and the telling insights it provides into a largely forgotten, but immensely important and significant episode in Pakistan’s history, through the writings of Tariq Rahman, Sorayya Khan, Aamer Hussein, Aquila Ismail, Shahbano Bilgrami, Sara Suleri, Kamila Shamsie, and Roopa Farooki, among others.
