ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the framing of “9/11” by confronting the politics of dating 9/11, its scaling, structuring and narration that provoked a heightened sense of insecurity, the framing of unjust policies, implementation of tyrannical laws and the promotion of anti-Muslim right-wing populist politics in the 21’ century. It shows the thematic patterns and narrative techniques in diasporic and transnational South Asian literature and Hindi films concerned with the 9/11 attacks and the War on Terror. Hindi cinema took up the task of such mediations considering the predominant visual projection of the 9/11 attacks in the American and the Indian media. Since the beginning of the 21st century, Pakistani English novels have received much global attention and critical acclaim considering their meaningful dialogues with the complexities of the changing political and cultural scenarios in South Asia and the Global North.
