The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (Routledge Literature Companions)

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Bibliography
Part I Reimagining history  The legacy of war and Partition
	1 ‘All these angularities’: Spatialising non-Muslim Pakistani identities
		Notes
		Bibliography
	2 1971: Reassessing a forgotten national narrative
		In the aftermath of 1971: breaking the silence
		Beyond trauma and amnesia
		Masculinity, war, and violence against women
		Marxism: an interlude
		Confronting the reality
		Amid cyclone, floods, and gunfire
		In nowhere land
		Dreams of unity
		In the new millennium: excavating memories of 1971
		My brother, my enemy
		Notes
		Bibliography
	3 History, borders, and identity: Dealing with silenced memories of 1971
		Recalling the war in Noor
		Unveiling a hidden past in Kartography
		Note
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Part II 9/11 and beyond Contexts, forms, and perspectives
	4 Global Pakistan in the wake of 9/11
		Postcolonial globality
		Conspiracy and network
		The problem of place
		Notes
		Bibliography
	5 Pakistani inoutsiders and the dynamics of post-9/11 dissociation in Pakistani anglophone fiction
		Globalised anglophone studies and inoutside perspectives
		The intricacy of Pakistan-US relations
		From American success story to cultural dissociation
		Narrating and debating culture, identity, and religion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	6 The nuclear novel in Pakistan
		Capaciousness of the nuclear question
		Nuclear armament in Pakistan
		Addressing the fairy tale of American exceptionalism
		Moth Smoke: regionality and allegory
		Nuclear thrillers
		Notes
		Bibliography
	7 Uses of humour in post-9/11 Pakistani anglophone fiction: H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy and...
		Humour in Naqvi’s Home Boy
		A comparison with A Case of Exploding Mangoes
		Notes
		Bibliography
	8 Comic affiliations/comic subversions: The use of humour in contemporary British-Pakistani fiction
		Notes
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	9 Resistance and redefinition: Theatre of the Pakistani diaspora in the UK and the US
		Notes
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	10 Historiographic metafiction and renarrating history
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Part III The dialectics of human rights Politics, positionality, controversies
	11 Pakistani fiction and human rights
		Notes
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	12 Divergent discourses: Human rights and contemporary Pakistani anglophone literature
		The rise of human rights literature
		A new turn in Pakistani anglophone fiction
		The controversy of memoirs by Pakistani women
		Notes
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	13 The taming of the tribal within Pakistani narratives of progress, conflict, and romance
		Narrative of romance
		Narrative of conflict
		Narrative of progress
		Notes
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	14 Phoenix rising: The West’s use (and misuse) of anglophone memoirs by Pakistani women
		The ‘veiled’ woman in Western rhetoric and imagination
		The construction of Eastern women’s essential identity in Western readerships’ collective imagination
		Rising from the ashes: the phoenixes Mukhtar and Malala
		Phoenixes are mythical, not material
		Notes
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	15 Writing back and/as activism: Refiguring victimhood and remapping the shooting of Malala Yousafzai
		A bestselling memoir, a ‘veiled bestseller’? Personalising/decentring the political
		‘I am Malala’: remapping the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in I am Malala and He Named Me Malala
		Writing back and building platforms
		Note
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Part IV Identities in question Shifting perspectives on gender
	16 Doing history right: Challenging masculinist postcolonialism in Pakistani anglophone literature
		The Charlie Hebdo affair and postcolonial male melancholia
		(Self-)orientalism reiterated in our times
		Exit West – and East?
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	17 Love, sex, and desire vs Islam in British Muslim literature
		The Black Album
		Greetings from Bury Park
		Maps for Lost Lovers
		Bibliography
	18 Transgressive desire, everyday life, and the production of ‘modernity’ in Pakistani anglophone fiction
		Tension between transgressive desire and social order
		Transgressive desire and the defamiliarisation of everyday life
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part V Spaces of female subjectivity Identity, difference, agency
	19 Agency, gender, nationalism, and the romantic imaginary in Pakistan
		Romance at the limits: the strained interventions of Fahmida Raiz
		Postmodernity and the (trans)national Pakistani romance
		‘She has discovered a new lease of life’: cultural memory, contingency, and the play of imagination...
		Notes
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	20 Conjugal.homes: Marriage culture in contemporary novels of the Pakistani diaspora
		Notes
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	21 British-Pakistani female playwrights: Feminist perspectives on sexuality, marriage, and domestic violence
		Sexuality and Marriage
		Domestic Violence
		Reflection
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Part VI Shifting contexts New perspectives on identity, space, and mobility
	22 Identifying Islamic spaces of worship in contemporary British-Pakistani Muslim life writing
		Notes
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	23 Homes and belonging(s)
	The interconnectedness of space, movement, and identity in British-Pakistani novels
		Notes
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	24 Committed and communist: Negotiating political allegiances in the diaspora
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Part VII Unsettling narratives Imagining post-postcolonial perspectives
	25 Non-human narrative agency: Textual sedimentation in Pakistani anglophone literature
		Pakistani anglophone literature and material textuality
		Entangled agencies and transversal subjectivities
		Matterphor: rereading meanings and materiality in Pakistani anglophone literature
		Notes
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	26 Post-postcolonial experiments with perspectives
		Narrative perspective as a system of relations
		Who is speaking to whom in The Reluctant Fundamentalist?
		‘Who are you?’ in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and The Scatter Here Is too Great
		Conclusion: an open invitation to an ongoing conversation
		Note
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	27 Peripheral modernism and realism in British-Pakistani fiction
		Indo-Pakistani
		Zulfikar Ghose’s peripheral modernism
		The return of realism
		Realist dissonance
		Nietzsche and the postcolonial Bildungsroman
		Race and affirmative culture
		Bibliography
Part VIII New horizons Towards a Pakistani idiom
	28 ‘Brand Pakistan’: Global imaginings and national concerns in Pakistani anglophone literature
		Defining a Pakistani author
		Global imaginings, national concerns
		‘Brand Pakistan’
		Authenticity, essentialism, and exoticism
		Materialist critical approaches: avoiding a regressive return
		Notes
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	29 Competing habitus: National expectations, metropolitan market, and Pakistani writing in English (PWE)
		Notes
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	30 De/reconstructing identities: Critical approaches to contemporary Pakistani anglophone fiction
		Pakistani, Muslim, human: Towards a humanistic cosmopolitanism
		Framing Pakistani Muslims: global, national, religious, and regional approaches
		Rising into theory: identity, deconstruction, reconstruction
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	31 On the wings of ‘poesy’: Pakistani diaspora poets and the ‘Pakistani idiom’
		Hybridising a theory: the ‘Pakistani (English poetic) idiom’
		Transforming identities: some Pakistani diaspora poets
		Wrapping it up: so where are we now?
		Notes
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	32 Brand Pakistan: The case for a Pakistani anglophone literary canon
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