| Sumario: | 13 See Saadia Toor, I The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan i (London: Pluto Press, 2011); Ayesha Jalal, I The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence i (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). In my analysis, I examine how the politics of the state, resistance and terror is shown in Shamsie's fictions to operate through states of exception, creating precarious situations for characters who are marked as the living dead in modern political warfare. Kamila Shamsie was born in Karachi, lives in London, and has a strong affinity to the United States, having studied at Hamilton College and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In this analysis, the politics of sovereignty in the postcolonial state through anti-terror legislation has provided a means for modern states to exercise the right to kill by creating "the state of exception" and "the state of siege.".
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