Abstract
Introduction
The year marked the birth centenary of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-2011) and was celebrated with events and publications. The vitality of Pakistani English literature was reflected in accomplished new fiction by Jamil Ahmed, Nafisa Haji and Aamer Hussein, a volume of poetry translations edited by Waqas Khwaja and Iftikhar Arif, noteworthy autobiographies by Imran Khan and Ghulam Fatima Shaikh, linguistic debates illuminated by Tariq Rahman and thought-provoking political analyses by Maliha Lodhi, among others. There were new Pakistan-related critical works by Claire Chambers, Colin Chambers, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin as well as Special Pakistan issues in three academic journals, including The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, guest-edited by Muneeza Shamsie.
Among literary awards, The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan (1947-2008) by Ilhan Niaz won the inaugural Karachi Literature Festival prize for non-fiction. The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam was shortlisted for the inaugural Warwick Award, The Cloud Messenger by Aamer Hussein and The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki were both shortlisted for the Muslim Writers Awards. Home Boy by H.M. Naqvi won the 2011 DSC Award at Jaipur, Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie received the Premio Boccaccio Award and The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmed received the Shakti Bhatt First Novel award and was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Asia and DSC awards. The octogenarian Ahmed served as civil servant in tribal areas. His tales are loosely connected through the character Tor Baz. The opening story “Sins of the Mother” tells of his birth to a doomed, runaway couple. In spare, lucid prose, Ahmed recreates a barren, timeless, almost biblical landscape which dwarfs its inhabitants. In “A Point of Honour” and “The Death of the Camels”, the ancient certainties of tribal life are juxtaposed with the exigencies of the modern state. “The Kidnapping” tells of a tribal feud, “The Mullah” and “The Guide” interweave Anglo-German rivalry in the two World Wars.
Recent years have witnessed increasing Pakistani English fiction on the 1971 conflict and the loss of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Shahryar Fazli’s first novel Invitation, though somewhat wordy, is impelled by full-blooded characters and interweaves themes such as the loss of innocence and the public and the personal against the backdrop of the 1970 elections and the subsequent military action in East Pakistan. The expatriate young Shahbaz returns to Karachi to resolve a family property dispute. He seeks out his father’s friend, Brigadier Alamgir, owner of the Agra Hotel with a nightclub frequented by public figures, and is caught in a whirl of power, corruption, state violence and a glaring class divide. Entranced by Maleka, an Egyptian cabaret dancer, he betrays his friendship with Ghulam Husain, his father’s old Bengali driver. Aquila Ismail’s autobiographical first novel, Of Martyrs and Marigolds, set in East Pakistan/Bangladesh, details the 1971 war and its aftermath, though the politics overweighs the narrative at the cost of character development. Suri, the narrator, belongs to a family of Urdu-speaking migrants from India who made East Pakistan thier home in 1947. Suri speaks and looks Bengali and is in love with a Bengali boy. She and her family are critical of West Pakistan’s policies towards East Pakistan but find themselves regarded as non-Bengali, West Pakistan allies and the enemy; the events of 1970/71 lead to open hostility and killings of “Urdu-speakers” (collectively known as “Biharis”). Ismail’s treatment of 1971, through friends on opposite sides, portrays horror, heroism and sadness; she leads up to the newly independent Bangladesh where Suri and her family find themselves rounded up and confined to camps.
The aftermath of 9/11 is central to many Pakistani American novels, including Welcome to Americastan by Jabeen Akhter, which employs comedy to portray the multicultural world of the narrator, Samira. Jilted by Ethan, her lover, mistakenly jailed as a terrorist, and sacked from her job in Washington DC, Samira returns home to her parents in North Carolina. There she works for her father’s Pakistan Council, corresponds with a cousin and would-be suitor in Pakistan – and discovers the perfidious Ethan is invited to her brother’s wedding. Nafisa Haji’s accomplished second novel The Sweetness of Tears employs several narrators across three generations. Although their stories eventually unite them, they tell of lives shaped by divisions of family, race, religion, sect, and nationality. The main protagonist Jo and her twin brother Chris are brought up by their parents, Angela and Jake, as devout Christian Evangelists in the American mid-West. But Jo discovers that their biological father is Sadiq, a Muslim from Pakistan, and tracks him down. Sadiq’s narrative recaptures his Karachi childhood and the traumatic event which leads to his migration to the United States and reunion with his estranged mother, Deena. She has become a guide and mentor to Angela, an American neighbour’s daughter. As each protagonist recounts, shares and confronts the past, they are led to a therapeutic self-discovery. The novel draws in American history, including parallels between the experience of shell shock in, respectively, the wars in Vietnam and Iraq.
In a different vein, Javed Qazi’s novel Well Met in Cyprus captures the beauty and divisions of that island and comments on the inequality of nations. Robert, an American professor, is posted in North Cyprus but Anara, the young Kazakh woman he loves, is dogged by visa issues. She starts to work for a shady Russian, with tragic consequences.
Aamer Hussein’s eighth book of fiction and his first lyrical novel The Cloud Messenger continues with the themes of exile and belonging, central to his oeuvre. Through numerous literary references, ranging from classical South Asian poetry to American fiction, Mehran the narrator tells of his migration from a privileged childhood in Karachi to multicultural London, with interludes in Italy and India. The plot revolves around Mehran’s complex relationship with three people: Marco, an Italian Indophile, both a friend and a rival; Riccarda, an older married woman and Mehran’s lifelong passion, and Marvi, a racy, young, unhappily-married Pakistani woman and a fellow Sindhi through whom Mehran reclaims his Sindhi heritage.
Roopa Farooki’s fluid and lively fifth novel The Flying Man begins with the elderly Lahore-born Miqal alone in Biarritz, reflecting upon his colourful past. A man of great charm, he is addicted to high living and gambling. His life is a complex web of lies, deceits and betrayals. He abandons his half-Egyptian, half-French, first wife and, later, marries the beautiful and independent Samira Rai, a Bengali Christian. He moves to London with her but remains an absent and distant figure to their twins, Mika and Zamir. His adventures involve Miguel, a forger in Spain. In Hong Kong, he marries the Irish-born Bernadette and, during a visit to Pakistan, finds himself a minor literary celebrity, thanks to a Pakistani scholar’s discovery of the play Miqal wrote while serving a sentence in a British jail.
Mohammed Hanif’s second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, though sometimes enlivened by wit, provides a dark, searing portrait of power, powerlessness and state terror in Pakistan. Alice Bhatti, a Christian nurse, works at the short-staffed, ill-equipped Sacred Heart Hospital, which is frequently deluged by wounded criminals as well as the hapless victims of Karachi’s deadly riots. Alice’s dedication ensures that her patients survive against heavy odds, but her beauty draws predatory male doctors, patients and their visitors. She is rescued from near-rape by the muscular Teddy Butt, a weight-lifter. Alice falls in love with Teddy, a Muslim, but, unknown to her, the reader finds out that he works for the police department as an informer, agent provocateur and thug. Soon she finds herself overtaken by malign forces beyond her control.
Moni Mohsin’s third novel Tender Hooks is a sequel to The Diary of a Social Butterfly and continues with her clever bilingual social satire, a combination of idiomatic Urdu and inaccurate, misspelt English. As Butterfly’s records her crowded life between 2009 and 2010 in Lahore, she flits from one social extravaganza to the next. While she comments on diamonds and designer shoes and vies with others, the country is beset by suicide bombings, electricity failures, and a perpetual thread of news involving Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama and the Taliban.
The distinguished Zulfikar Ghose’s new poetry volume 50 Poems: 30 Selected and 20 New includes, on the one hand, well known favourites such as “These Landscapes, These People” and “A Memory of India” and, on the other, recent work such as “Nusrat”, an elegy to Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali, and “Three Rooms and A Fort by the Ocean”, where images of swimming pools and mermaids in Brazil belie a terrifying state secret. Ejaz Rahim’s new collection I, Confucius is dominated by the title poem. Rahim uses a stylized Chinese voice and imagery to portray, through the sage’s vision and philosophy, a lyrical contemplation on power and good governance, with clear resonances with contemporary Pakistan. Syeda Henna Babar Ali’s collection A Rose, dedicated to “All the Victims of Terrorism in Pakistan”, includes overtly political poems such as “Chaotic Horror” and “The Afghan War”; others revolve around spiritual quests. Suspended Somewhere Between by Akbar S. Ahmed, the well-known scholar, includes poems written across many decades. Notably, the collection includes his earliest memory: his family’s migration by train to Pakistan in August 1947. He contemplates history in poems such as “The Passing of an Empire”; others, such as “Walking the Streets with the Dahta” and “Khaiber Pass”, focus on Pakistani cities and/or landscapes. A particularly fine poem, “The Meeting”, describes a man praying, watched by a snake. However, these three poetry volumes by Rahim, Ali and Ahmed required a determined pruning out of weaker poems.
John Siddique’s fourth poem collection Full Blood plays with opposites embodied by “Thirst” which begins “Imagine thirst without knowing water” and ends “imagine love without love” (90). The many skilled poems include a five-part sequence, “The Knife”, in which memories of desire and love are placed against a racist threat. While the section “Tree of Life”, inspired by the ancient legend of Lillith, is both a love story and a creation hymn and plays with biblical imagery. Other notable work includes two interrelated poems, “The Hundred”, where lists of names make a powerful anti-war statement about Afghanistan. The volume also includes self-conscious erotic poems.
There continues to be a paucity of published drama, with the notable exception of The Domestic Crusaders by Wajahat Ali, a two-act play, revolving around three generations of a Pakistani-American family gathered to celebrate a birthday.
There were many translations of interest, including Avicenna’s Deliverance Logic by Asad Q. Ahmed, with critical comments and a pioneering translation from Arabic of Avicenna’s treatise. The offering from Urdu fiction includes Sajjad Zaheer’s classic One Night in London translated by Bilal Hashmi, four popular detective novels by Ibne Safi, translated by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Maisooma by Ismat Chugtai, translated by Tahira Naqvi, and All Passion Spent by Zahida Hina, translated by Neelam Hussain. Modern Poetry from Pakistan edited by Iftikhar Arif and Waqas Ahmed Khwaja is a veritable feast of contemporary poems by forty-four writers translated from Urdu, Balochi, Kashmiri, Pashto, Punjabi, Seraiki and Sindhi by fifteen translators. The volume includes ghazals from Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, renowned political poetry such as Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s “A Prison Evening” and Habib Jalib’s “Code”, and multilayered poems imbued with Islamic mysticism such as “Hassan the Potter” by N.M. Rashid. The writers are represented in a loose chronological order and range from Hamza Baba, Ghani Khan, Muhammed Iqbal and Shaikh Ayaz to Iftikhar Arif, Kishwar Naheed and Hasina Gul, with a noticeably strong representation of women in the second half. Your Essence, Martyr: Pakistani Elegies, edited by Alamgir Hashmi, consists of translations of Urdu poetry on the execution of Zuflikar Ali Bhutto, originally written in 1979 but with “a limited clandestine circulation” (3) under oppressive regimes for many years. Translated skilfully by Faruq Hassan, David Matthews, and Rafey Habib, the poets range from Salim Shahed and Farigh Bokhari to Josh Malihabadi and Fahmida Riaz.
Among memoirs, the slim but fascinating Footprints in Time: Reminiscences of a Sindhi Matriarch (translated from the Sindhi by Rashida Hussain the author’s grand-daughter) tells of the family’s conversion from Hinduism and its passionate involvement in the anti-British, pro-Ottoman, Khilafat movement. During World War I, the author and her husband lived in Madina, then an Ottoman possession, and witnessed, with dismay, the British support for The Arab Revolt. Rear Admiral Zahid Hasnain’s The Odyssey of a Sailor is a distinguished naval officer’s account of his pre-1947 career in the Royal Indian Navy and his pioneering role in building the Pakistan Navy. Pakistan: A Personal Journey by Imran Khan appeared shortly before his political party, the Tehrik-i-Insaf, became a political force. The book provides important insights into the man and his vision; it covers his cricketing career, his marriage, and his humanitarian and political work. In a very different vein, Soul Unshackled by Sohail Fida is the autobiography of a prisoner who continues to protest his innocence, completes a master’s degree in jail and finds solace in books.
To commemorate Faiz’s centenary, the sumptuous Two Loves: Letters from Jail by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (edited by Kyla Pasha and Saleema Hashmi) reproduces and reconstructs the twenty-six surviving English letters that Faiz wrote to his British wife, Alys, while imprisoned for his alleged involvement in the 1951 Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case. These provide an invaluable insight into the poet’s mind and his family and prison life, although most of the original 135 letters (published in an Urdu translation in 1979) were destroyed by termites. Two Loves includes a historical analysis by Ayesha Jalal, translations of essays by Faiz’s fellow prisoners, Sajjad Zaheer and Major Ishaq, and photocopies of letters from Faiz’s children as well as photographs.
Pakistan’s role in geopolitics has led to a spate of books on its political conflicts and state structure. Pakistan: Beyond the Crisis State edited by Maliha Lodhi provides an informed overview. In “The Past in the Present” Ayesha Jalal advocates a national narrative based on a critical assessment of the past; Mohsin Hamid’s “Will Pakistan Survive?” celebrates the diversity of Pakistan; Lodhi’s title essay looks at governance and the power relationships between different institutions. Other thought provoking essays include “Army and Politics” by Shuja Nawaz, “Battling Militancy” by Zahid Hussain and “Afghan Conundrum” by Ahmed Rashid. Wars, Insurgencies and Terrorist Attacks: A Psychological Perspective in the Muslim World by Unaiza Niaz looks at the over sixty-year-long history of violence in Muslim countries, including Algeria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine and Bosnia and also examines the etiology of terrorism. Saleem Shahzad, who was mysteriously abducted and, later, murdered in shocking circumstances, portrays an investigative journalist’s rare insight into terror in Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11. There has also been much praise for Irfan Hussain’s lucid analyses Fatal Faultlines: Pakistan, Islam and the West. Other books of interest include The Tyranny of Language in Education by Zubeida Mustafa and Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia by Iftikhar Dadi.
Tariq Rahman’s scholarly account From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History provides “a historic reconstruction of the processes which preceded and led to the use of Urdu in social domains” (6). He traces the origins of Urdu to the fully-formed Hindi in pre-Muslim India followed by its contacts with Persian, Arabic and Turkish. He explores the different terms by which this symbiotic vernacular was known from Hindvi and Dakkani to Rekhtah and looks at its usage by poets such as Baba Farid and Amir Khusrau. He discusses British influences, the marginalization of Persian and the process by which a common language was forced to bifurcate into two modern languages: a Sanskritized Hindi and an Arabic-Persianized Urdu, both the result of a colonialist and later, nationalist and communal enterprise. Rahman also comments on the role of the printing press, the reformist Urdu writings of Hali, Azad and Nazeer Ahmed in formulating a new Muslim identity and the subsequent dominance of Urdu in Pakistan today, including radio, television and film.
Poetry as Resistance: Islam and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Pakistan by Nukhbah Taj Langah questions the dominant role of Urdu and Punjabi and challenges the notion that Siraiki is a dialect of Punjabi. She asserts Siraiki’s distinct features and a Siraiki vaisab, a term which “simultaneously connects the cultural, geographic, historical and linguistic boundaries of an identity that is unique Siraiki” (63) She describes the influence of the nineteenth-century Siraiki mystic and poet Khwaja Ghulam Farid but focuses on three Siraiki poets in Pakistan: Safeer Lashari, Aslam Ansari and Aslam Javed. Her nuanced reading of their work highlights its spectacular imagery. The English translations include Ansari’s excellent English transliterations from Urdu into English: Langah asserts that he uses these two language, rather than Siraiki, as a creative vehicle, to subvert the dominant narratives of both by expressing the Siraiki vaisab. Langah also discusses Lashari’s mystical poetry, where the female Beloved embodies Siraiki nationalism, and provides insights into the migrant Javed’s identification with Siraiki and his use of Multan, Uch Sharif and Fort Derawar as important symbols.
The upsurge in critical studies includes In the Ring of Pure Light by Zulfikar Ghose, based on lectures Ghose delivered in Pakistan recently. He discusses literary works, the process of writing and the way in which words, ideas and images link up countries and cultures in his own oeuvre. The final essay “Letters to Brian” tells of his historic friendship with B.S. Johnson. Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History by Colin Chambers is a rare and invaluable work which traces representations of the colour black/the non-white Other from the age of the Tudors to modern times. Chambers describes the impact of the colonial encounter on the performing arts, the changing face of post-war Britain and the gradual development of a distinct South Asian theatre, fostered by groups such as the Tara Arts Theatre and Tamasha. Chambers details the role of the theatre in addressing issues of political unrest and racist violence, with the support of organizations such as The Riverside Studios and The English Stage Company, which provided a platform for young black and Asian writers and actors, including Hanif Kureishi.
Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 by Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin throws insights into the portrayal of Muslims as the Alien Other in the western media today and its impact on political debates, society, culture and indeed, war. The book includes a historical overview of the Muslim presence in Britain and provides a biting critique of “ahistorical”, erroneous perceptions of Muslims as a single monolith. The co-authors emphasize the diversity of Muslim life and urge for the need for a political will to tackle stereotypes which generate animosity. They also examine issues such as the sensational news coverage of honour killings, otherwise blatant media manipulation by Muslim or Christian right-wing extremists, the new “global Islamic cosmopolitanism”, exploited by commercial enterprises, and the contrastingly subversive wit of Shazia Mirza.
British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers by Claire Chambers portrays the complexity of Muslim culture through a collection of thirteen interviews focusing on writers of English-language fiction living in Britain whose work reflects “a Muslim civilizational heritage”. This volume includes Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bangladesh-born Tahmima Anam and Sudanese-born Leila Aboulela as well as several Pakistani English novelists: Tariq Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Mohsin Hamid, Zahid Husain, Aamer Hussein, Hanif Kureishi and Kamila Shamsie. All these writers address a wide range of thought-provoking issues, from Islamic history, Sufi lore, global capitalism, and market imperialism to identity, belonging, culture, migration and multiculturalism in a post-9/11 and 7/7 world.
Three academic journals published Special Pakistan Issues which collectively form an interlocking pattern and provide a comprehensive insight into Pakistani English Literature. The Journal of Postcolonial Writing’s Special Issue: Beyond Geography: Literature, Politics and Violence in Pakistan, guest-edited by Muneeza Shamsie, employs different genres to focus on twenty-first century writing and begins with five incisive critical essays: Claire Chambers compares Pakistani English fiction with English writing from other Muslim lands; Peter Morey examines Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a novel belonging to a new globalized, post-9/11 form of fiction, challenging conventional certitudes; Bruce King looks at Kamila Shamsie’s novels of “history, memory and desire”; Caroline Herbert examines the legacies of 1971 in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography; and Ananya Jahanara Kabir’s explores modern Pakistan’s identity in “Deep Topographies in the Fiction of Uzma Aslam Khan”. Other contributions include interviews of Moniza Alvi and Mohammed Hanif, memoirs by Humera Afridi and Robin Yassin-Kassab and fiction by Irshad Abdul Kadir, poetry by Sadaf Halai, Salman Tarik Kureshi and Illona Yusuf.
The Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies’s Special Pakistan Issue, guest edited by Waqas Khwaja and Ghazala Hashmi, includes six critical essays and includes writing in English and Urdu. Cara Cilano’s “‘Freeing the Outlook of Man from Its Geographical Limitations’: the Supraterritoriality of Pakistan English and Urdu Literatures” gathers up diverse writers, including Muhammed Iqbal and Alamgir Hashmi and Taufiq Rafat; Sue Pue compares the ideas of Iqbal and N.M. Rashid in relation to Pakistani culture and nationhood; Khurram Khurshid looks at Urdu tropes and “Muslim consciousness” in Ahmed Ali’s English novel Twilight in Delhi; Julietta Singh discusses the reclamation of forgotten narratives in “‘Between Food and Body’: Sara Suleri’s Edible Histories’”; Sohini Roy explores the portrayal of women, home and nation in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India and Divya Victor challenges perceptions of Sidhwa’s short story “Defend Yourself against Me” as a feminist text. Muneeza Shamsie’s memoir “Imperial Shadows: A Tale of Two Childhoods: Colonial and Postcolonial” intertwines her schooling in Britain with that of her father. There are also three substantial review essays on recent poetry, fiction and women’s writing which cover the work of Moniza Alvi, Hima Raza, H.M. Naqvi and Ali Sethi among others.
The South Asian Review’s Pakistani Creative Writing in English: Tracing the Tradition, Embracing the Emerging, edited by Fawzia Afzal Khan and Waseem Anwar, is a collection of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama, but there are too many glaring omissions to generate a dialogue on literary tradition. However, the excerpt from the pioneering Taufiq Rafat’s 1960’s verse-play The Foothold is a rare treat. The volume also includes Rukhsana Ahmed’s memoir “Searching for a Talisman” and Aamer Hussein’s story “This Other Salt”, which links to an interactive story by Mohsin Hamid and excerpts from novels by Uzma Aslam Khan and HM Naqvi. The real strength of this issue lies in the extensive work by newer, emerging writers, including stories by Aamna Naseer, Moazzam Sheikh and Sabyn Javeri Jillani and poetry by Mahwesh Shoaib, Shadab Zeest Hashmi and Illona Yusuf.
From this it can be surmised that Pakistani English Literature remains vital and dynamic and continues to generate increasing interest. While fiction continues to expand its horizons and is much in demand, poetry draws comparatively little attention, though quality work is evident in literary journals and special issues. Pakistaniaat: The Journal of Pakistan Studies remains a valuable platform for critical and creative writing, The Annual of Urdu Studies an important bilingual forum and Dawn’s Books and Authors supplement, a key weekly resource, while Sohbet, a new Lahore-based cultural journal, extends to include literature. Pakistan’s role in geopolitics has generated excellent works of non-fiction, ranging from political analyses to discussions on education, art and culture.
The year saw many losses. Dr Nabi Baksh Baloch (b.1917), an academic, scholar, translator and a towering figure in Pakistani letters; Professor Saba Dashtiari (Ghulam Hussain, b. 1953), political activist, academic, author and translator; Hasan Dars (b. 1966), poet and journalist; Khalid bin Sayeed (b. 1927), renowned scholar and academic; Syed Saleem Shahzad (b.1970), distinguished journalist; Mansha Yad (Muhammed Mansha, b. 1937), writer, novelist and playwright. They are deeply mourned.
Bibliography
Bibliographies Published Serially
“Bibliographic News” Annual of Urdu Studies 26 ed M.U. Memon pp343–347 [see
MLA International Bibliography 2011 (see Pakistan-related items in the relevant sections).
“Pakistan Related Texts” David Waterman Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, 3 (1) pp119–22; 3(2) np; 3(3) pp107–111 [see
Research Aids
From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History Tariq Rahman 456pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1095.
Oxford English-Sindhi Dictionary 2096pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1500.
Poetry as Resistance: Islam & Ethnicity in Postcolonial Pakistan Nukbah Langah 296pp Routledge (London) £65.
State of Human Rights in 2010 374pp Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (Lahore) Rs300.
Tyranny of Language in Education: The Problem and Its Solution Zubeida Mustafa 234pp Ushba Publishing (Karachi) Rs200.
Poetry
Ali, Syeda Henna Babar A Rose (Poems) 132pp selfpub (Lahore) Rs350.
Ahmed, Akbar Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book of Verse 152pp PM Press (Washington) 152pp US$15.
Ghose, Zulfikar 50 Poems 30 Selected 20 New 112pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs250 [2010].
Khan, Sadiqullah The Voices 574pp CreateSpace (North Charleston) US $25
Rahim, Ejaz. I, Confucius viii+120pp Dost Publications (Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad) Rs250
Siddique, John Full Blood 124pp Salt (London) £9.99.
Drama
Ali, Wajahat Domestic Crusaders 128pp McSweeney’s (San Francisco) US$9
Fiction
Ahmad, Jamil The Wandering Falcon 180pp Penguin (New Delhi) Rs399.
Akhtar, Jabeen Welcome to Americastan 280pp Penguin (New Delhi) Rs450.
Fazli, Shehryar Invitation 385pp Tranquebar Press (New Delhi) Rs995.
Haider, Syed Afzal To Be with Her 250ppWeaver Press (|San Francisco) (2010).
Haji, Nafisa The Sweetness of Tears 400pp Harper Collins (New York) US$14.99.
Hanif, Mohammed Our Lady of Alice Bhatti 231pp Random House (New Delhi) Rs299.
Haque, Syrrina Haque Sand in the Castle: A Collection of Short Stories 112pp Mavrai Publishers (Lahore) Rs350.
Malik, Max The Butterfly Hunter 608pp Legend Press (London) £7.99
Mohsin, Moni Tender Hooks 256pp Random House (India) Rs395.
Hussein, Aamer The Cloud Messenger 195pp Telegram (London) £7.99.
Ismail, Aquila Of Martyrs and Marigolds 296pp CreateSpace (North Charleston CA) US$12
Qazi, Javed. Well Met in Cyprus: 376pp Nyogi (India) Rs395.
Translations
Ahmed, Asad Q. Avicenna’s Deliverance Logic trans and notes by Asad Q Ahmed general ed S. Nomanul Haq 228pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs575.
Amjad, Amjad Islam Shifting Sands: Poems of Love and Other Verses trans from Urdu by Baidar Bakhat and Mairie Anne Erki 603pp Jahangir Book Depot Rs800.
Arif, Iftikhar ed and trans ed Waqas Khwaja Modern Poetry of Pakistan xxxix+344pp Dalkey Archive Press (Champaign, Ill) US$16.95
Chughtai, Ismat Masooma: A Novel trans from Urdu by Tahira Naqvi 152pp Women Unlimited (New Delhi) Rs250.
Hashmi, Alamgir Your Essence, Martyr: Pakistani Elegies 86pp Plainview Imprint.
Hina, Zaheda All Passion Spent trans from the Urdu by Neelam Husain 167pp Zubaan Books (New Delhi) Rs225.
Khwaja, Waqas trans ed and Iftikhar Arif ed Modern Poetry from Pakistan [see
Masroor, Jamshed Elusive Shadows: Ghazals and Poems trans from Urdu by Elisabeth Sandberg 250pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs400.
Pathan, Mohammed Ali Fluttering Feelings trans from Sindhi by Jam Jamali 176pp Bhittai Publishers (Larkana).
Safi, Ibn-e Doctor Dread 200pp Rs 200; Poisoned Arrow 124pp Rs250; Smokewater 124pp Rs200; The Laughing Corpse 124 Rs200; trans from Urdu by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Westland Tranquebar & Eastwest (New Delhi).
Shahid, S.M. ed Urdu Short Stories: A Selection trans from Urdu by S.M. Shahid 88pp CMC Ltd [see
Shaikh, Ghulam Fatima Footprints in Time: Reminiscences of a Sindhi Matriarch trans from Sindhi by Rasheeda Husain xxxv+144pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs525 [see
Shinwari, Haroon An Introduction to Hamza Baba with trans from Pashto by Haroon Shinwari 101pp Community Appraisal and Motivation Camp and The Hamza Baba Adabi Society (Peshawer) Rs250.
Zaheer, Sajjad A Night in London trans from Urdu by Bilal Hashmi introd Carlo Coppola 200pp HarperCollins (New Delhi) Rs236.
Letters and Autobiography
Afzal-Khan, Fawzia Lahore with Love: Growing up with Girlfriends Pakistani-Style 228pp CreateSpace US$16.
Akhtar, Shoaib Controversially Yours 320pp Harper Collins (New Delhi) Rs995.
Atiya Begum Iqbal ed Rauf Parekh introd Fateh Muhammed Malik xxiii+125pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs495 (first pub 1947).
Bakhsh, Lt.Col. Ilahi With the Quaid-i-Azam During His Last Days 67pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs425.
Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Two Loves: Faiz’s Letters from Jail eds Kyla Pasha and Saleema Hashmi 280pp Sang-e-Meel Publications (Lahore) Rs5000.
Fida, Sohail Soul Unshackled 154pp Paramount Publishing (Karachi) Rs495.
Fyzee-Rahamin, Atiya [see
Hasan, Raihana A. Sips from a Broken Teacup: Sketches of Life Fron an Assamese Tea Plantation 429pp Ushba Publications (Karachi) Rs900.
Hasnain, Syed Zahid Odyssey of a Sailor 360pp Sama (Karachi) US$22.
Hussain, Altaf My Life’s Journey: The Early Years 1966-1988 252pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs795.
Khan, Imran Pakistan: A Personal History 440 pp Bantam Press (London) £20.
Kutty, B.M. Sixty Years in Self-Exile: No Regrets; a Political Autobiography: 562pp Pakistan Study Centre, Univ of Karachi (Karachi) Rs600 [for comment see review Dec 4].
Mohyeddin, Zia A Carrot Is a Carrot 316pp Ushba Publishing (Karachi) Rs900 (first pub 2008).
Shaikh, Ghulam Fatima Footprints in Time [see
Anthologies
Elusive Dawn: Remembering Faiz Ahmed Faiz: A People’s Poet: A Centenary Publication Mohsin Zulfiqar and Fabbeh Hussein 390pp+illustrations Kala Sangam and Faiz Centenary Organizing Committee (London) £14.99.
Faiz: A Poet for Peace from Pakistan: His Poetry, Personality and Philosophy eds Khalid Sohail and Ashfaq Hassan 496pp Pakistan Study Centre University of Karachi (essays).
The Large White Crescent Toheed Ahmed ed 423pp Apa Publications Rs795 [essays by historical and contemporary figures].
Modern Poetry of Pakistan ed Iftikhar Arif trans ed Waqas Khwaja [see
The Popcorn Essayists: What Movies Do to Writers ed Jai Arjun Singh 227pp Tranquebar (Chennai) Rs395 [includes “The Foo worshippers guide to Maula Jat” by Musharraf Farooqi and “Two Languages in Conversation” by Kamila Shamsie].
Qurratulain Hyder and “The River of Fire”: The Meaning, Scope and Significance of Her Legacy ed Rakhshanda Jalil 255pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs495 [critical essays].
Revisioning Iqbal: As a Poet and Muslim Political Thinker eds Gita Dharampal-Frick, Ali Usman Qasmi, Katia Rostetter eds 231pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs450 [critical essays].
Sixty Six Books: 21st Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible ed Bush Theatre 536pp Oberon Books (London) £14.99 [includes “Deutoronomy: The Rules” by Maha Khan Philips and “Philomen: The Letter” by Kamila Shamsie].
Urdu Short Stories: A Selection ed and trans S.M. Shahid [see
Criticism
General Studies
“Bombs and Mullahs: Negotiating Literary Landmines in Contemporary Pakistani English Writings” Madeleine Clements Sohbet (2) pp104–111 [see
“Black” Women’s Dramatic Discourse: A Psychosemiotic Study of Silence in Selected Plays by African American Women Dramatists Waseem Anwar 196pp VDM Verlag (Saarbrucken) £61[2009].
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History Colin Chambers 291pp Routledge (London and New York).
British Asian Fiction: Twenty First Century Voices Sara Upstone 240pp Manchester Univ Press £15.90 [2010].
“British Muslim Fictions?” Claire Chambers Race, Equality, Teaching 30(1) Summer pp35–9,
British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers Claire Chambers 338pp Palgrave £55.
The Dancing Beloved in South Asian Lyric Film: A Study of Pakeezah, Mughal-I-Azam and Umrao Jaan Nadiya Chisty-Mujahid 101pp The Edwin Mellen Press (New York) US$89.95.
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction (Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature) eds Brian W. Shaffer, Patrick O’Donnell, David W. Madden, Justus Nieland, John Clement Ball 1584pp Wiley Blackwell (Hoboken NJ) US$595 [entries on: Pakistani English fiction by Muneeza Shamsie; Hanif Kureishi by Bradley W. Buchanan; Ahmed Ali by Harish Trivedi; Nadeem Aslam by Khurram Khurshid; Bapsi Sidhwa by Ambreen Hai; Adam Zameenzad by Kamila Shamsie – for online edition see
Glimpses of Urdu Literature Zahida Zaidi 280pp Promilla & Co India InRs550.
In the Ring of Pure Light Zulfikar Ghose xiv+154pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs275
“Literature and the World” Muneeza Shamsie Dawn (Karachi) 3 Mar p6
Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin 246pp Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass) US$27.95.
“Postmodern Fiction: Manufactures and Auto-Texts” Adrian A. Husain Sohbet Spring 2012(3) pp155–160 [see
“South Asian Muslims: Fiction and Poetry in English” Muneeza Shamsie Religion and Literature [43]1 Spring pp149—157 [see
“Poetry Round Table with Writers of Muslim Heritage” Claire Chambers Exiled Ink 14 Winter 13–14 [on John Siddique, Moniza Alvi and Imtiaz Dharker].
“Recent Literary Representations of British Muslims” Claire Chambers Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century eds M. Bailey and G. Redden Ashgate (Farnham) pp175–88 [on Nadeem Aslam and Leila Aboulela].
Studies on Individual Writers
Ahmad, Jamil “The Tribe Is the Fairest and Least Tyrannical of Societies” Herald (Karachi) June pp84–85 [interview];
— “Perspectives of Change” Jaya Bhattacharji Businesss World 20 May http://www.businessworld.in/bw/2011_05_23_Perspectives_Of_Change.html; “The Forgotten Tribes” Mahvesh Murad Herald (Karachi) June p83; “Tribal Tales and Childish Wonder” Kamila Shamsie The Observor: The New Review (London) 14 Aug p36; “Fact and Fiction” I.A. Rehman Newsline (Karachi) Oct p92 [reviews of The Wandering Falcon, see
Ahmed, Akbar S. “Poetry: A Cry from the Heart: A Scholar’s Poetic Expression” Ghori Karamatullah Dawn B&A 19 Jun p4; “Suspended Somewhere Between: A Review” Shadab Zeest Hashmi Pakistaniaat 3(2) [reviews of Suspended Somewhere Between–see
— “Living Poetry” Huma Yusuf Dawn B&A (Karachi) 10 Apr p3 [interview].
Akhtar, Jabeen “Desi Concoctions” Mohsin Siddiqui Dawn B&A (Karachi) 18 Dec p3 [review of Welcome to Americastan by Jabeen Akhtar].
Aslam, Nadeem “The Contact Zone in Wartime: Hybridity’s Promise and Terror in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil” David Waterman Hybridity: Forms and Figures in Literature and the Visual Arts eds Vanessa Guignery, Catherine Pesso-Miquel and François Specq Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Newcastle upon Tyne) pp250–259.
Aslam Khan, Uzma “Karachi, Turtles, and the Materiality of Place: Pakistani Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing” Shahzia Rahman Interdiscip Stud Lit Environ Spring 18(2) pp261–282; “Bones of Contention in Uzma Aslam Khan’s The Geometry of God” Pascal Zinck in “Tectonic Shifts: The Global and the Local” ed Christine Lorre Commonwealth Essays and Studies 34(1) Autumn pp43–53.
Fazli, Shahryar “Seduction and a Dark Democracy” Razeshta Sethna Dawn B&A (Karachi) 6 Mar p3 [review of Invitation].
— “An Interview with Shahryar Fazli” Mahvesh Murad Herald (Karachi) Mar.
Farooqi, Musharraf “The Story Behind the Story” Dawn B&A (Karachi) Mar 27 pp34 [on Japanese literary influence].
Ghose, Zulfikar “Form and Style” Bilal Ibne Rasheed The News: Literati (Karachi) 24 Apri p30 [review of In the Ring of Pure Light].
— “All Serious Writers Have Dismissed the Notions of What’s Demanded by the Market” Illona Yusuf Newsline (Karachi) Jul pp90–93 [interview].
Haji, Nafisa “Family Affairs” Ras H. Siddiqui Dawn B&A (Karachi) 3 Jul p4 (review of The Sweetness of Tears].
Hamid, Mohsin “Focus on the Fundamentals: l’identité personnelle et politique dans The Reluctant Fundamentalist de Mohsin Hamid” David Waterman Représentations et crises identitaires: Communautés en mutation Les Indes Savantes (Paris) pp77–90.
— “The Treatment of ‘9/11’ in Contemporary Anglophone Pakistani Literature: A Case for Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a Postcolonial Bildungsroman” Gohar Karim Khan eSharp 17 Summer http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/esharp/issues/17summer2011-crisis/
Hanif, Mohammed “We Are All Mad Here” Mahwesh Murad Herald (Karachi) Aug p105; “Story in Question” Arif Waqar The News: Literati (Karachi) 14 Aug p30; “Lady Love” Mohsin Siddiqi The Friday Times (Lahore) 12–15Aug p28; “Because Love Is a Runaway Charya” Bilal Tanweer Dawn B&A (Karachi) 4 Sept pp12; “Hail Alice Bhatti” Amna R. Ali Newsline (Karachi) Oct p89–90 [reviews of Our Lady of Alice Bhatti].
— “I usually have a flash of brilliance twice a year. Otherwise it’s a hard slog” Maheen Bashir Adamjee Newsline Aug pp68–71 [interview+extract from Our Lady of Alice Bhatti].
— “Novels Have Their Own Weather” Raza Rumi The Friday Times (Lahore) 19-25Aug p29 [interview].
Haider, Syed Afzal “Your Losses Travel with You” Hilary Stranger Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 3(3) Autumn pp87–89.
Hashmi, Shadab Zeest “Seeking Andalusia” Muneeza Shamsie Newsline (Karachi) Sept pp87–88 [review of Baker of Tarifa].
— “I’m Very Interested in Discovering Cultures” Ilona Yusuf Newsline (Karachi) Sept pp88–89 [interview].
— “Suspended Somewhere Between: A Review” [
Hussein, Aamer “Tales of Exile and Belonging” Mohsin Siddiqi Dawn B&A (Karachi) 22 May p3; “The Hidden Soul Of Harmony” Tazeen Inam Express Tribune (Karachi) 23 Jul; “Anatomy of Exile” Sascha Akhter Herald (Karachi) Apr p83 [reviews of The Cloud Messenger].
Khwaja, Waqas “Can Translation Happen” The News International: Literati: (Karachi) June 12 p30; “The Riches of Pakistani Poetry” Muneeza Shamsie Newsline Aug87–88 (reviews of Modern Poetry From Pakistan).
Kureishi, Hanif Collected Essays 400pp Faber & Faber £17.00
— “Suited Up in the Compositional Realm of Morrison,Walker, Wright, Ellison, and the ‘The Artist Formerly Known as Prince’: Identity, Belonging, and Acceptance in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album” Lillie Ann Brown Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 3 (3) Autumn pp22–33.
Mohsin, Moni “A Suitable Girl” Mehvash Amin The News International:Literati, (Karachi) Feb 20 p30; “The Return of the Butterfly” Adil M. Mamum Dawn B&A (Karachi) Mar 13 p1–2 [review of Tender Hooks+interview].
— “Butterfly Is Back” The Friday Times (Lahore) 4–10 Feb p12 [interview].
Phillips, Maha Khan “Entertaining Debauchery” Mohsin Siddiqi Herald (Karachi) Jan p149; “Beautiful from Which Angle” Nadir Hassan Newsline (Karachi) [reviews of Beautiful from This Angle].
— “Interview: Maha Khan Philips” Maheen Bashir Adamjee Newsline (Karachi) Feb [interview].
Shah, Bina “The Fundamentals of Survival” Jaya Bhattacharji Business World Apr 6 http://www.businessworld.in/bw/2011_04_06_The_Fundamentals_Of_Survival.html [review of Slum Child].
— “Living Poems” [see this section Siddique, John].
— “Writers Bloc” Bina Shah The Friday Times (Lahore) 12–18 Aug pp 22–23 [review of British Muslim Fictions by Claire Chambers].
Shamsie, Kamila “The Hideous Beauty of Bird-Shaped Burns–Transnational Allegory and Feminist Rhetoric in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows” Gohar Karim Khan Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 3(2) pp53–68.
— “Tribal Tales” (see
Shahraz, Qaisra The Holy and the Unholy: Critical Essays on Qaisra Shahraz’s Fiction Abdur Rahman Kidwai 302pp Sarup Book Publishers (New Delhi) US$55.
Shivani, Anis “Write What You Don’t Know” Bilal Ibne Rashid The News International: Literati (Karachi) Feb 6 p30 [interview].
— “Collage of Legal Aliens” Bilal Ibne Rasheed The News International: Literati (Karachi) Feb 27 p30 [review of Anatolia and Other Stories].
Siddique, John “Living Poems, Bold as Love” Bina Shah Dawn B&A (Karachi) 29 May p4 [review of Full Blood].
Sidhwa, Bapsi “More Than Victims: Versions of Feminine Power in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India” Jacquelynn M. Kleist Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 3(2) 53–68.
Warraich, Haider “A Conflicting Read” Mohsin Siddiqui Dawn B&A (Karachi) Apr24 p6 [review of Auras of the Jinn].
Non-fiction
Ahmed, Ishtiaq The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed: Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through Secret British Reports and First Person Accounts 775pp Rupa (New Delhi) Rs995.
Ahmed, Ishtiaq ed The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia 288pp Routledge (London) £85.
Ahmed, Manan Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination 284pp Just World Books (Charlottesville VA) US$23.95
Ali, Tariq The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home: War Abroad 156pp Verso (London) £7.99 [2010].
— Arundhati Roy, Pankaj Mishra, Hilal Bhat, Angana P. Chatterji Kashmir: The Call for Freedom 160pp Verso (London) £9.99.
Aijazuddin, FS From a Head, through a Head, to a Head: The Secret Channel through US and China through Pakistan 163pp Sang-e-Meel Rs595.
Anjum, Tanvir Chisti Sufis in the Sultanate of Delhi 1190-1400: From Restricted Indifference to Calculated Defiance 433pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1200.
Ayazuddin, Fakir S. Comments: 311pp self-pub (essays).
Chattha, Ilyas Partition and Locality: Violence, Migrations and Development in Gujranwala and Sialkot 1947–1961 304pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs825.
Dadi, Iftikhar Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia 360pp University of Carolina Press US$39.95 (2010).
Elias, Jamal J. On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan 252pp Oneworld Publications (London) Rs3500.
Hoodboy, Nafisa Aboard the Democracy Train: A Journey through Pakistan’s Last Decade of Democracy 236pp Anthem Press (London) £14.99.
Husain, Irfan Fatal Faultlines: Pakistan, Islam and the West 256pp Arc US$19.99.
Hussain, Mujahid The Punjabi Taliban 300 pp Pentagon Press (India) Rs1595.
Khan. M. Asghar Milestones in a Political Journey 244pp Dost Publications (Islamabad) Rs350.
Khan, Riaz Mohammed Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict Extremism and Resistance to Modernity 400pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs995.
Khan, Wusatullah Sailab Diary 320pp Pakistan Study Centre Univ of Karachi Rs400.
Mir, Amir The Bhutto Murder Trail: From Waziristan to GHQ 280pp Tranquebar Press (Chennai) Rs995.
Nasr, Agha. This Is Pity 225pp Pakistan Television Corporation Publication (Islamabad) (history of television in Pakistan).
Niaz, Unaiza Wars, Insurgencies and Terrorist Attacks: A Psychological Perspective in the Muslim World 364pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs 1050.
Qadeer, Mohammad A. Pakistan: Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation 322pp Vanguard (Lahore) Rs995.
Qasimi, Ali Usman Questioning the Authority of the Past: The Ahlal-Quran Movements in the Punjab (Karachi) 360pp Oxford Univ Press Rs825.
Qureshi, Saleem Jinnah: The Founder of Pakistan: In the Eyes of His Contemporaries and Documentary Records at Lincoln’s Inn: Second Edition 176pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs550 [first pub Oxford Univ Press, 1998].
Saeed, Fouzia Forgotten Faces: Daring Women of Pakistan’s Folk Theatre 128pp Lok Virsa (Islamabad) [updated illustrated edition - first pub as Women in Folk Theatre Fouzia Saeed and Adam Nayar, 1991].
Saeed, Saadat A Wild Goose Chase 126pp Maktaba Naeem (Lahore) Rs300 (essays including appraisals of Urdu writers and writing).
Samad, Yunas Pakistan-US Conundrum, the Jihadists, the Military and the People–the Struggle for Control 288pp Hurst (London) £16.99.
Shaheed, Farida, and Aisha Lee Shaheed Great Ancestors: Women Claiming Rights in the Muslim Context 258pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs795.
Shehzad, Syed Saleem Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 272pp Pluto Press US$24.15.
Toor, Saadia State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan 264pp Pluto Press (London) Rs1450.
Lodhi, Maleeha Pakistan: Beyond the “Crisis State” 320 pp Hurst (London) £16.99.
Rashid, Salman The Apricot Road to Yarkand 203pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs2200. (travels).
Wizarat, Shahida Fighting Imperialism, Liberating Pakistan 360pp Centre for Research and Statistics (Karachi).
Zaman, Mahmood State Vandalism of History in Pakistan 218pp Vanguard (Lahore) Rs795.
Zubair, Suleman History of Invasions of the Indus Valley and Their Aftermath 427pp Benzey Publications (Lahore) Rs500.
Journals
Annual of Urdu Studies ed M.U. Memon University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison WI 53706, USA. Subs Individual (US) US$25.00; (Rest of World): US$35.00; Institutional (US): US$45.00; Institutional (Rest of World): US$50.00 (Prices include postage and handling)
Pakistaniaat: Journal of Pakistan Studies ed Masood Ashraf Raja Department of English, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311307 Denton, TX 76203, USA subs print (single) US$29 (print+online–1year) individual US$80 institutional US$150
Sohbet Journal of Contemporary Arts and Culture National College of Arts and One Nine Two eds Naazish Ataullah and Suroosh Irfani subs Research and Publications Centre National College of Arts, 4 Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam, Lahore 54000 Subs inc postage Annual (2 issues) Local: Individual Rs900 Institutional Rs2000 Foreign Individual US$25 Institutional US$50 email:
Special Issues
Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 16(1) 2009 Special Pakistan Issue guest eds Waqas Khwaja and Ghazala Hashmi ed Gautam Kundu 166pp Department of Literature and Philosophy, Georgia Southern University, P. O. Box 8023, Statesboro, GA 30460-8023, USA [critical essays, memoir +reviews].
Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47(2) May Special Issue: Beyond Geography: Literature, Politics and Violence in Pakistan guest ed Muneeza Shamsie eds Janet Wilson, Chris Ringrose 254pp Routledge (London, New Delhi, Philadelphia) Taylor and Francis, T&F Customer Services, Informa Plc, Sheepen Place, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3LP, UK email:
Religion and Literature 43(1) Spring Special Issue “The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature” pp119–190 guest eds Catherine Perry and Alison Rice ed Susannah Monta 1035 Flanner Hall, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN 46556 USA email
South Asian Review: Creative Writing Issue: Pakistani Creative Writing in English (Tracing the Tradition: Embracing the Emerging) 31(3) 2010 guest eds Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Waseem Anwar ed KD Verma 405pp Department of English, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown, Johnstown PA 15094, USA email:
Internet Sites
Accessing Muslim Lives www.accessingmuslimlives.org.
Annual of Urdu Studies www.urdustudies.com.
Asymptote Journal www.asymptotejournal.com.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RJPW.
Pakistaniaat: Journal of Pakistan Studies http://pakistaniaat.org.
Wiley Blackwell Literature Encyclopedia www.literatureencyclopedia.com/.