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This article reads Zia Haider Rahman’s debut novel  In the Light of What We Know  (2014), focusing on its interventionist trajectory with regards to Bangladeshi and Pakistani national discourse. It analyses the representational subversions this intervention entails and the factors that enable them. Rahman is a member of the Bangladeshi diaspora in Britain, and this physical distance from the home country is one factor that shapes his critical reading of the dominant rhetoric of both nationalisms. The fact that he is a second- rather than first-generation immigrant also contributes to his relationship with the mainstream Bangladeshi and Pakistani national discourse. The article argues that by intervening in the officially sanctioned national narratives of Bangladesh and Pakistan, Rahman initiates a healthy new trend in Bangladeshi diasporic literature – one which helps to build a bridge of empathy between the two nations locked in an endless cycle of antagonism and misunderstanding.

Beyond national(ist) binaries: The case of Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know