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).

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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