The Routledge companion to Pakistani Anglophone writing / edited by Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kanwal, Aroosa, 1974- editor.

Aslam, Saiyma, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge companions to literature series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pakistani literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Pakistani literature (English).

Pakistani literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.

Pakistani literature (English)--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 399 pages).

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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:

Introduction / Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam

Reimagining History: The Legacy of War and Partition. "All These Angularities": Spatialising non-Muslim Pakistani Identities / Cara Cilano

1971: Reassessing a Forgotten National Narrative / Muneeza Shamsie

History, Borders and Identity: Dealing with Silenced Memories of 1971 / Daniela Vitolo

9/11 and Beyond: Contexts, Forms and Perspectives. Global Pakistan in the Wake of 9/11 / Ulka Anjaria

US-American Inoutside Perspectives and the Dynamics of Post-9/11 Dissociation in Pakistani Fiction / Claudia Nordinger

The Nuclear Novel in Pakistan / Michaela M. Henry

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 / Ambreen Hai

Comic Affiliations/Comic Subversions: The Use of Humour in Contemporary British Pakistani Fiction / Sarah Ilott

Resistance and Redefinition: Theatre of the Pakistani Diaspora in the UK and the US / Suhaan Mehta

Historiographic Metafiction and Renarrating History / Nisreen Yousef

The Dialectics of Human Rights: Politics, Positionality, Controversies. Pakistani Fiction and Human Rights / Esra Mirze Santesso

Divergent Discourses: Human Rights, and Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Literature / Shazia Sadaf

The Taming of the Tribal within Pakistani Narratives of Progress, Conflict and Romance / Uzma Abid Ansari

Phoenix Rising: The West's Use (and misuse) of Anglophone Memoirs of Pakistani Women / Colleen Lutz Clemens

Writing Back and/as Activism: Refiguring Victimhood and Remapping the Shooting of Malala Yousafzai / Rachel Fox

Identities in Question: Shifting Perspectives on Gender. Doing History Right: Challenging Masculinist Postcolonialism in Pakistani English Literature / Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Love, Sex, and Desire v/s Islam in British Muslim Literature / Kavita Bhanot

Everyday Life and Wordly Subjectivity in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction / Mosarrap Hossain Khan

Spaces of Female Subjectivity: Identity, Difference, Agency. Agency, Gender, Nationalism and the Romantic Imaginary in Pakistan / Abu-Bakar Ali

Conjugal Homes: Marriage Culture in Contemporary Novels of the Pakistani Diaspora / Rahul K. Gairola and Elham Fatma

British-Pakistani Female Playwrights: Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality, Marriage, and Domestic Violence / Aqeel Abdulla

Shifting Contexts: New Perspectives on Identity, Space and Mobility. Identifying Islamic Spaces of Worship in Contemporary British Pakistani Life Writing / Gerogia Stabler

Homes and Belonging(s): The Interconnectedness of Space, Movement and Identity in British Pakistani Novels / Eva Pataki

Committed and Communist: Negotiating Political Alegiances in the Diaspora / Miquel Pomar-Amer

Unsettling Narratives: Imagining Post-postcolonial Perspectives. Non-Human Narrative Agency: Textual Sedimentation in Pakistani Anglophone Literature / Asma Mansoor

Post-Postcolonial Experiments with Perspectives / Hanji Lee

Peripheral Modernism and Realism in British-Pakistani Fiction / Asher Ghaffar

New Horizons: Towards a Pakistani Idiom. "Brand Pakistan": Global Imaginings and National Concerns in Pakistani Anglophone Literature / Barirah Nazir, Nicholas Holm and Kim L. Worthington

Competing Habitus: National Expectations, Metropolitan Market and Pakistani Writing in English (PWE) / Masood Raja

De/Re-constructing Identities: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Pakistani Fiction / Faisal Nazir

On the Wings of Poesy: Pakistani Diaspora Poets and the Pakistani Idiom / Waseem Anwar

Brand Pakistan: The Case of Pakistani Anglophone Literary Canon / Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam.

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ISBN:

9781315180618

OCLC:

1050360881

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