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Taylor and Francis Routledge Companion To Pakistani Anglophone Writing 2019 Edition by Aroosa Kanwal, Saiyma Aslam
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 ContributorsAcknowledgements IntroductionAroosa Kanwal and Saiyma AslamPART I: Reimagining History: The Legacy of War and Partition'All These Angularities': Spatialising non-Muslim Pakistani IdentitiesCara Cilano1971: Reassessing a Forgotten National NarrativeMuneeza ShamsieHistory, Borders, and Identity: Dealing with Silenced Memories of 1971Daniela VitoloPART II: 9/11 and Beyond: Contexts, Forms, and PerspectivesGlobal Pakistan in the Wake of 9/11Ulka AnjariaPakistani Inoutsiders and the Dynamics of Post-9/11 Dissociation in Pakistani Anglophone FictionClaudia NoerdingerThe Nuclear Novel in PakistanMichaela M. HenryUses of Humour in Post-9/11 Pakistani Anglophone Fiction: H.M. Naqvi's Home Boy and Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding MangoesAmbreen HaiComic Affiliations/Comic Subversions: The Use of Humour in Contemporary British-Pakistani Fiction. Sarah IlottResistance and Redefinition: Theatre of the Pakistani Diaspora in the UK and the USSuhaan MehtaHistoriographic Metafiction and Renarrating HistoryNisreen YousefPART III: The Dialectics of Human Rights: Politics, Positionality, ControversiesPakistani Fiction and Human RightsEsra Mirze SantessoDivergent Discourses: Human Rights and Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Literature.Shazia Sadaf The Taming of the Tribal within Pakistani Narratives of Progress, Conflict, and RomanceUzma Abid AnsariPhoenix Rising: The West's Use (and misuse) of Anglophone Memoirs of Pakistani Women. Colleen Lutz ClemensWriting Back and/as Activism: Refiguring Victimhood and Remapping the Shooting of Malala YousafzaiRachel FoxPART IV: Identities in Question: Shifting Perspectives on GenderDoing History Right: Challenging Masculinist Postcolonialism in Pakistani English Literature.Fawzia Afzal-KhanLove, Sex, and Desire vs Islam in British Muslim LiteratureKavita BhanotTransgressive Desire, Everyday Life, and the Production of 'Modernity' in Pakistani Anglophone FictionMosarrap Hossain KhanPART V: Spaces of Female Subjectivity: Identity, Difference, AgencyAgency, Gender, Nationalism, and the Romantic Imaginary in PakistanAbu-Bakar AliConjugal Homes: Marriage Culture in Contemporary Novels of the Pakistani Diaspora Rahul K. Gairola and Elham FatmaBritish-Pakistani Female Playwrights: Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality, Marriage, and Domestic ViolenceAqeel AbdullaPART VI: Shifting Contexts: New Perspectives on Identity, Space, and MobilityIdentifying Islamic Spaces of Worship in Contemporary British-Pakistani Life WritingGeorgia StablerHomes and Belonging(s): The Interconnectedness of Space, Movement, and Identity in British-Pakistani NovelsEva PatakiCommitted and Communist: Negotiating Political Alegiances in the DiasporaMiquel Pomar-AmerPART VII: Unsettling Narratives: Imagining Post-Postcolonial PerspectivesNon-Human Narrative Agency: Textual Sedimentation in Pakistani Anglophone LiteratureAsma MansoorPost-Postcolonial Experiments with PerspectivesHanji LeePeripheral Modernism and Realism in British-Pakistani FictionAsher GhaffarPART VIII: New Horizons: Towards a Pakistani Idiom'Brand Pakistan': Global Imaginings and National Concerns in Pakistani Anglophone LiteratureBarirah Nazir, Nicholas Holm, and Kim L. WorthingtonCompeting Habitus: National Expectations, Metropolitan Market, and Pakistani Writing in English (PWE)Masood Ashraf RajaDe/Reconstructing Identities: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Pakistani FictionFaisal NazirOn the Wings of 'Poesy': Pakistani Diaspora Poets and the 'Pakistani Idiom'Waseem AnwarBrand Pakistan: The Case for a Pakistani Anglophone Literary CanonAroosa Kanwal and Saiyma AslamIndex