Twins in Literature and Fiction: Bonding, Individuation, and IdentityISBN: 978-1-4955-0754-0 116pp.

Fraternal Male Twinship in History, Society, Fiction and EntertainmentISBN: 978-1-4955-0927-8 116pp.

Twin Perceptions and Realities: Viewed Through Fiction and Non-FictionISBN: 978-1-4955-1070-0 100pp.

Literary, Scholarly and Mythological Aspects of TwinshipISBN: 978-1-4955-1336-7130pp.

All books by Nadya Chishty-Mujahid and published by The Edwin Mellen Press n exceptionally dedicated educationist, a prolific writer of both non-fiction and fiction, and a sharply observant literary critic who teaches in Karachi after receiving a doctorate in English literature in Canada, Nadya Chishty-Mujahid recently completed four monographs on twinship.

The quartet represents the first-ever study in multiple dimensions by a Pakistani scholar on a subject that has so far been examined in the region only in relatively narrow scientific terms of physical and health-related aspects. In this set of four studies, the author has conducted extensive — indeed  exhaustive, and surely exhausting — reading, research and reflection on the historical, physiological, psychological, familial, social and cultural facets of this unusual biological phenomenon.

Though she sourced content that is available and accessible in her working language of English and is, unavoidably, largely Western, her search also ranged far and wide, be it for references from China or Italy. She read about 90 novels on facets of twinship written by........

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