TY - BOOK ID - 69564703 TI - The Routledge companion to Pakistani Anglophone writing AU - Kanwal, Aroosa AU - Aslam, Saiyma PY - 2019 SN - 1315180618 1351719866 1351719858 9781315180618 9781351719865 9781351719841 135171984X 9781351719858 9781138745520 1138745529 PB - London ; New York, NY : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Pakistani literature (English) KW - History and criticism. KW - English literature KW - Pakistan literature (English) KW - Pakistani literature KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69564703 AB - 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. ER -