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Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing

Edited By Aroosa Kanwal, Saiyma Aslam Copyright 2019
    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    416 Pages
    by Routledge

    416 Pages
    by Routledge
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    The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing forms a theoretical, comprehensive, and critically astute overview of the history and future of Pakistani literature in English. Dealing with key issues for global society today, from terrorism, religious extremism, fundamentalism, corruption, and intolerance, to matters of love, hate, loss, belongingness, and identity conflicts, this Companion brings together over thirty essays by leading and emerging scholars, and presents:

    • the transformations and continuities in Pakistani anglophone writing since its inauguration in 1947 to today;

    • contestations and controversies that have not only informed creative writing but also subverted certain stereotypes in favour of a dynamic representation of Pakistani Muslim experiences;

    • a case for a Pakistani canon through a critical perspective on how different writers and their works have, at different times, both consciously and unconsciously, helped to realise and extend a uniquely Pakistani idiom.

    Providing a comprehensive yet manageable introduction to cross-cultural relations and to historical, regional, local, and global contexts that are essential to reading Pakistani anglophone literature, The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing is key reading for researchers and academics in Pakistani anglophone literature, history, and culture. It is also relevant to other disciplines such as terror studies, post-9/11 literature, gender studies, postcolonial studies, feminist studies, human rights, diaspora studies, space and mobility studies, religion, and contemporary South Asian literatures and cultures.

    Notes on Contributors

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction

    Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam

    PART I: Reimagining History: The Legacy of War and Partition

      1. 'All These Angularities': Spatialising non-Muslim Pakistani Identities

        2. Cara Cilano

      2. 1971: Reassessing a Forgotten National Narrative

        3. Muneeza Shamsie

      3. History, Borders, and Identity: Dealing with Silenced Memories of 1971

        4. Daniela Vitolo

        PART II: 9/11 and Beyond: Contexts, Forms, and Perspectives

      4. Global Pakistan in the Wake of 9/11

        5. Ulka Anjaria

      5. Pakistani Inoutsiders and the Dynamics of Post-9/11 Dissociation in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction

        6. Claudia Nördinger

      6. The Nuclear Novel in Pakistan

        7. Michaela M. Henry

      7. Uses of Humour in Post-9/11 Pakistani Anglophone Fiction: H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy and Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes

        8. Ambreen Hai

      8. Comic Affiliations/Comic Subversions: The Use of Humour in Contemporary British-Pakistani Fiction.

        9. Sarah Ilott

      9. Resistance and Redefinition: Theatre of the Pakistani Diaspora in the UK and the US

        10. Suhaan Mehta

      10. Historiographic Metafiction and Renarrating History

        11. Nisreen Yousef

        PART III: The Dialectics of Human Rights: Politics, Positionality, Controversies

      11. Pakistani Fiction and Human Rights

        12. Esra Mirze Santesso

      12. Divergent Discourses: Human Rights and Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Literature.

        13. Shazia Sadaf

      13. The Taming of the Tribal within Pakistani Narratives of Progress, Conflict, and Romance

        14. Uzma Abid Ansari

      14. Phoenix Rising: The West’s Use (and misuse) of Anglophone Memoirs of Pakistani Women.

        15. Colleen Lutz Clemens

      15. Writing Back and/as Activism: Refiguring Victimhood and Remapping the Shooting of Malala Yousafzai

        16. Rachel Fox

        PART IV: Identities in Question: Shifting Perspectives on Gender

      16. Doing History Right: Challenging Masculinist Postcolonialism in Pakistani English Literature.

        17. Fawzia Afzal-Khan

      17. Love, Sex, and Desire vs Islam in British Muslim Literature

        18. Kavita Bhanot

      18. Transgressive Desire, Everyday Life, and the Production of 'Modernity' in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction

        19. Mosarrap Hossain Khan

        PART V: Spaces of Female Subjectivity: Identity, Difference, Agency

      19. Agency, Gender, Nationalism, and the Romantic Imaginary in Pakistan

        20. Abu-Bakar Ali

      20. Conjugal Homes: Marriage Culture in Contemporary Novels of the Pakistani Diaspora

        21. Rahul K. Gairola and Elham Fatma

      21. British-Pakistani Female Playwrights: Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality, Marriage, and Domestic Violence

        22. Aqeel Abdulla

        PART VI: Shifting Contexts: New Perspectives on Identity, Space, and Mobility

      22. Identifying Islamic Spaces of Worship in Contemporary British-Pakistani Life Writing

        23. Georgia Stabler

      23. Homes and Belonging(s): The Interconnectedness of Space, Movement, and Identity in British-Pakistani Novels

        24. Éva Pataki

      24. Committed and Communist: Negotiating Political Alegiances in the Diaspora

        25. Miquel Pomar-Amer

        PART VII: Unsettling Narratives: Imagining Post-Postcolonial Perspectives

      25. Non-Human Narrative Agency: Textual Sedimentation in Pakistani Anglophone Literature

        26. Asma Mansoor

      26. Post-Postcolonial Experiments with Perspectives

        27. Hanji Lee

      27. Peripheral Modernism and Realism in British-Pakistani Fiction

        28. Asher Ghaffar

        PART VIII: New Horizons: Towards a Pakistani Idiom

      28. ‘Brand Pakistan’: Global Imaginings and National Concerns in Pakistani Anglophone Literature

        29. Barirah Nazir, Nicholas Holm, and Kim L. Worthington

      29. Competing Habitus: National Expectations, Metropolitan Market, and Pakistani Writing in English (PWE)

        30. Masood Ashraf Raja

      30. De/Reconstructing Identities: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Pakistani Fiction

        31. Faisal Nazir

      31. On the Wings of 'Poesy': Pakistani Diaspora Poets and the 'Pakistani Idiom'

        32. Waseem Anwar

      32. Brand Pakistan: The Case for a Pakistani Anglophone Literary Canon

    Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam

    Index

    Biography

    Aroosa Kanwal is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the International Islamic University, Pakistan. She is an author of Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (2015), which was awarded the KLF-Coca-Cola award for the best non-fiction book of the year in 2015.

    Saiyma Aslam is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the International Islamic University, Pakistan. She is a researcher in postcolonial studies and English literature, with a focus on travelling theory, mobility, globalisation, and Islamic feminism. She is the author of From Stasis to Mobility: Arab Muslim Feminists and Travelling Theory (2017).

    "The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing is a stupendous collection of essays, serving as a comprehensive preamble to historical, regional, local, and global issues ambient to cross-cultural relations, which are imperative to the reading of Pakistani anglophone literature."
    - Muhammad Imran & Jonathan Locke Hart, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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