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