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, hat
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, hat
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).
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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: Reimagining History: The Legacy of War and Partition 1. 'All These Angularities': Spatialising non-Muslim Pakistani Identities 2. 1971: Reassessing a Forgotten National Narrative 3. History, Borders, and Identity: Dealing with Silenced Memories of 1971 PART II: 9/11 and Beyond: Contexts, Forms, and Perspectives 4. Global Pakistan in the Wake of 9/11 5. Pakistani Inoutsiders and the Dynamics of post-9/11 Dissociation in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction 6. The Nuclear Novel in Pakistan 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. Comic Affiliations/Comic Subversions: The Use of Humour in Contemporary British-Pakistani Fiction 9. Resistance and Redefinition: Theatre of the Pakistani Diaspora in the UK and the US 10. Historiographic Metafiction and Renarrating History PART III: The Dialectics of Human Rights: Politics, Positionality, Controversies 11. Pakistani Fiction and Human Rights 12. Divergent Discourses: Human Rights and Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Literature. 13. The Taming of the Tribal within Pakistani Narratives of Progress, Conflict, and Romance 14. Phoenix Rising: The West's Use (and misuse) of Anglophone Memoirs of Pakistani Women 15. Writing Back and/as Activism: Refiguring Victimhood and Remapping the Shooting of Malala Yousafzai PART IV: Identities in Question: Shifting Perspectives on Gender 16. Doing History Right: Challenging Masculinist Postcolonialism in Pakistani English Literature 17. Love, Sex, and Desire vs Islam in British Muslim Literature 18. Transgressive Desire, Everyday Life, and the Production of 'Modernity' in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction PART V: Spaces of Female Subjectivity: Identity, Difference, Agency 19. Agency, Gender, Nationalism, and the Romantic Imaginary in Pakistan 20. Conjugal Homes: Marriage Culture in Contemporary Novels of the Pakistani Diaspora 21. British-Pakistani Female Playwrights: Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality, Marriage, and Domestic Violence PART VI: Shifting Contexts: New Perspectives on Identity, Space, and Mobility 22. Identifying Islamic Spaces of Worship in Contemporary British-Pakistani Life Writing 23. Homes and Belonging(s): The Interconnectedness of Space, Movement, and Identity in British-Pakistani Novels 24. Committed and Communist: Negotiating Political Allegiances in the Diaspora PART VII: Unsettling Narratives: Imagining Post-postcolonial Perspectives 25. Non-Human Narrative Agency: Textual Sedimentation in Pakistani Anglophone Literature 26. Post-Postcolonial Experiments with Perspectives 27. Peripheral Modernism and Realism in British-Pakistani Fiction PART VIII: New Horizons: Towards a Pakistani Idiom 28. 'Brand Pakistan': Global Imaginings and National Concerns in Pakistani Anglophone Literature 29. Competing Habitus: National Expectations, Metropolitan Market, and Pakistani Writing in English (PWE) 30. De/Reconstructing Identities: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Fiction 31. On the Wings of 'Poesy': Pakistani Diaspora Poets and the Pakistani Idiom 32. Brand Pakistan: The Case of Pakistani Anglophone Literary Canon Index
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: Reimagining History: The Legacy of War and Partition 1. 'All These Angularities': Spatialising non-Muslim Pakistani Identities 2. 1971: Reassessing a Forgotten National Narrative 3. History, Borders, and Identity: Dealing with Silenced Memories of 1971 PART II: 9/11 and Beyond: Contexts, Forms, and Perspectives 4. Global Pakistan in the Wake of 9/11 5. Pakistani Inoutsiders and the Dynamics of post-9/11 Dissociation in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction 6. The Nuclear Novel in Pakistan 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. Comic Affiliations/Comic Subversions: The Use of Humour in Contemporary British-Pakistani Fiction 9. Resistance and Redefinition: Theatre of the Pakistani Diaspora in the UK and the US 10. Historiographic Metafiction and Renarrating History PART III: The Dialectics of Human Rights: Politics, Positionality, Controversies 11. Pakistani Fiction and Human Rights 12. Divergent Discourses: Human Rights and Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Literature. 13. The Taming of the Tribal within Pakistani Narratives of Progress, Conflict, and Romance 14. Phoenix Rising: The West's Use (and misuse) of Anglophone Memoirs of Pakistani Women 15. Writing Back and/as Activism: Refiguring Victimhood and Remapping the Shooting of Malala Yousafzai PART IV: Identities in Question: Shifting Perspectives on Gender 16. Doing History Right: Challenging Masculinist Postcolonialism in Pakistani English Literature 17. Love, Sex, and Desire vs Islam in British Muslim Literature 18. Transgressive Desire, Everyday Life, and the Production of 'Modernity' in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction PART V: Spaces of Female Subjectivity: Identity, Difference, Agency 19. Agency, Gender, Nationalism, and the Romantic Imaginary in Pakistan 20. Conjugal Homes: Marriage Culture in Contemporary Novels of the Pakistani Diaspora 21. British-Pakistani Female Playwrights: Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality, Marriage, and Domestic Violence PART VI: Shifting Contexts: New Perspectives on Identity, Space, and Mobility 22. Identifying Islamic Spaces of Worship in Contemporary British-Pakistani Life Writing 23. Homes and Belonging(s): The Interconnectedness of Space, Movement, and Identity in British-Pakistani Novels 24. Committed and Communist: Negotiating Political Allegiances in the Diaspora PART VII: Unsettling Narratives: Imagining Post-postcolonial Perspectives 25. Non-Human Narrative Agency: Textual Sedimentation in Pakistani Anglophone Literature 26. Post-Postcolonial Experiments with Perspectives 27. Peripheral Modernism and Realism in British-Pakistani Fiction PART VIII: New Horizons: Towards a Pakistani Idiom 28. 'Brand Pakistan': Global Imaginings and National Concerns in Pakistani Anglophone Literature 29. Competing Habitus: National Expectations, Metropolitan Market, and Pakistani Writing in English (PWE) 30. De/Reconstructing Identities: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Fiction 31. On the Wings of 'Poesy': Pakistani Diaspora Poets and the Pakistani Idiom 32. Brand Pakistan: The Case of Pakistani Anglophone Literary Canon Index
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