Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing

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).

"The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing is a stupendous collection of essays, serving as a comprehensive preamble to historical, regional, local, and global issues ambient to cross-cultural relations, which are imperative to the reading of Pakistani anglophone literature."- Muhammad Imran & Jonathan Locke Hart, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements IntroductionPART 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 Index