Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing

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.

List of contents

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




About the author










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).




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, hat

Product details

• Authors: Aroosa Aslam Kanwal
• Assisted by: Saiyma Aslam (Editor), Aroosa Kanwal (Editor), Kanwal Aroosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032401805
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240180-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Routledge Literature Companions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Pakistan, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature