Abstract
Introduction
2013 proved to be another productive year for Pakistani English literature, with an exciting offering of debut fiction by Fatima Bhutto, Omar Shahid Hamid and Bilal Tanweer among others. There were new story collections by Bapsi Sidhwa and Moazzam Shaikh, critically acclaimed drama by Ayad Akhtar and Ayub Khan-Din, a spectacular poetry collection by Moniza Alvi, a Special Issue on Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Pakistaniaat and an excellent re-examination of Manto by historian Ayesha Jalal. There were also major books of literary criticism by Cara Cilano and Ananya Jahanara Kabir, incisive political analyses by Babar Ayaz, Akbar S. Ahmed and Hussain Haqqani and a celebrated autobiography by sixteen-year-old Malala Yusufzai, the Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Kamila Shamsie was among the young writers chosen for Granta’s Best of British Novelists; Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden were shortlisted for the 2014 DSC Award; the distinguished Intizar Husain was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize; Moniza Alvi’s poetry collection At the Time of Partition was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot award; Ishtiaq Ahmed’s Punjab Partitioned Bloodied and Cleansed received the Jang UBL award and the KLF-Coca Cola Award.
Ayad Akhtar’s play Disgrace became the first work by a writer of Pakistani origin to receive the Pulitzer Prize; it provides a thought provoking discourse on migration, identity and belonging as well as the imagery of art and literature. Amir Kapoor, a successful corporate lawyer in New York, has legally changed his surname from “Abdullah” and hides his Pakistani origins from his Jewish employers. His American wife Emily, an artist, is more conscious than him of an Islamic heritage which she incorporates into her work. Emily and Amir’s nephew Abe Jensen (born Hussain Malik) persuade Amir to attend the trial of a Muslim imam in New York. This is reported in the press. The implications of this, including the surfacing of prejudice and suspicion, emerge at Amir and Emily’s dinner where they are joined by Amir’s colleague Jory, a black American and her partner, Isaac, a Jewish art curator. Amir learns that Jory has been given the partnership in the firm to which he has aspired. As tension and unguarded statements spill out, the play interrogates contemporary, post-9/11 America and issues of faith, ethnicity and race through these four Americans of different ethnic origin, although the script’s examination of “Muslim-ness” is rather self-conscious.
Bapsi Sidhwa’s fifth work of fiction and first story collection The Language of Love includes ‘Breaking It Up’ which revolves around a traditional Parsee couple’s confusion at their daughter’s resolve to marry an American, a story which Sidhwa developed later into her The American Brat. Some stories also describe an American woman’s experience of Pakistan while “Defend Yourself against Me” tells of the chance encounter in Texas, of childhood friends from Lahore, which unlocks terrifying memories of Partition. Tehmina Durrani’s fourth novel Happy Things in Sorrow Times portrays conflict in Afghanistan through the eyes of an Afghan girl who “seeks to make sense of the cruel meaninglessness of what is happening to her and her people” (Khaled Ahmed, Newsweek Pakistan 30 June).
In Moazzam Sheikh’s second collection Café Le Whore the narrator of the sophisticated title story tells of his mysterious meetings with his mother in San Fransciso at a transvestite restaurant, Café Le Whore, owned by a Lahori. Aberration, illusion, memory and loss are central to Sheikh’s collection, though sometimes the writing could have been tighter. “Searching for Aunty Nimmi” recreates the expatriate narrator’s painful sense of absence and change, each time he visits Lahore, the city of his childhood. “Jhura and Lali” captures vividly the nuances of rural Punjab and the suffering of Jura in the scorching summer, only to be betrayed by the welcome rain which leads to floods. Several stories, e.g. “Invisible Strands”, provide a witty portrayal of envy, duplicity and burning desire. In “Coldness” Sheikh looks at America’s post-9/11 Islamophobia to tell of a Pakistani American student’s passion for Loretta, a woman with a right-wing, Islamophobic lover.
Migration, adaptation and change also run through Qaisra Shahraz’s first story collection A Pair of Jeans and her third novel Revolt; both are set in Pakistan and Britain. While Bushra Rehman’s first novel Corona tells of the rebellious Razia who is brought up in a small Muslim community in New York City. Murtaza Razvi’s posthumously published collection Pittho’s World consists of a series of interconnected stories. Sheiku, an inveterate story teller and insomniac, regales his lover Rani with a myriad of entertaining tales which “are all, without a doubt, well-told” (Saima Shakeel Hussain, *Dawn B&A 1 Sept).
The multi-faceted city of Karachi is portrayed with sensitivity and insight in Irshad Abdul Kadir’s first collection Clifton Bridge. The title story tells of Peeru (an orphaned beggar boy), Rano (a destitute young woman) and her newborn baby – all virtually “owned” by the violent and venal Jumma. “Diva” portrays the conflict of a gifted singer between her conventional life as a banker’s wife and the demands of her talent. Several stories end with an unexpected twist, including “The Queen’s Garden”, which captures the complex of emotions of a young madrasah student who falls in love with a beautiful Christian girl. In “All in the Family” the senior and junior wives of a faithless man put aside their rivalry to exact a terrible revenge. Bilal Tanweer’s ambitious work The Scatter Here Is Too Great is built up through interrelated narratives which place Karachi as the book’s central character and are linked by a bomb blast at the busy Cantonment Station. The memoirs of a journalist “A Writer in the City” frame the two sections of the book. The first, “Sukhanaz”, consists of three stories: the elderly, left-wing poet, Comrade Sukhanaz tries to preach his egalitarian message to a bus of people. Sukhanaz’s grandson happens to be driving past on a clandestine rendezvous and sees Sukhanaz killed by the blast; nearby, Sukhanaz’s estranged son, struggles with his own demons. Tanweer continues to hone in on thwarted dreams and aspirations in the second part, “Sadeq”, which develops another layer of three stories: a young woman Asma is caught and disgraced for her secret assignations with a young man; he works for a security agency and keeps company with thugs who die in the blast; he meets an ambulance driver traumatized in the explosion’s aftermath and is revealed as Sadeq, the journalist’s old school friend.
The Prisoner by Omar Shahid Hamid is the first cohesive work of police fiction in Pakistani English literature. The author, a serving policeman, brings an insider’s knowledge into his portrayal of the police force and Pakistan’s power structures. He also provides a very fine portrait of his main protagonist Constantine, a highly respected senior police officer, who happens to belong to Pakistan’s Christian minority and has had to negotiate with growing extremism, but remains an intrinsic part of Pakistan’s professional and social fabric. Hamid’s riveting plot revolves around the kidnapping of an American journalist and the murder of a powerful politician’s brother and rival. Karachi’s ethnic and sectarian wars and the criminalization of politics are shown as affecting the lives of a rich panoply of characters ranging from wives and courtesans to politicians, jihadis, army officers and secret service men.
Fatima Bhutto’s first novel The Shadow of a Crescent Moon revolves around conflict in Mir Ali, a town in tribal Waziristan which has been overtaken by geo-politics and religious extremism. The action covers several hours shortly before Eid and is skillfully interwoven with memories of the past. American drones, the Pakistani state and its military, and the Sunni-Shia divide, all add to the daily sense of danger and violence which Bhutto recreates so vividly. The plot revolves around three brothers, Sikander, a doctor, Hayat a political rebel, dissident and Shia separatist, and Anam Erum who longs for broader horizons. Anam Erum’s admission to a college in America is facilitated by his willingness to spy for the Pakistani Intelligence and leads to his unwitting betrayal of Samarra, the woman he loves. The presence of death and the unknown fate of countless innocents loom over the narrative. Bhutto creates an impelling narrative which highlights the courage and dilemmas of her protagonists and their families amid the unending dangers faced by the hapless citizens of Mir Ali.
Shahrukh Hussain, children’s writer, playwright, scholar and translator takes her evocative first novel A Restless Wind to an erstwhile princely state in modern India against simmering communal tensions following the Babari Masjid affair and the Ahmadabad riots. The narrator Zara works as an immigrant lawyer in Britain, but her tale is complicated by the fact that she is the daughter of a Pakistani mother, though otherwise brought up by her aunt in India. On a visit to the family fort, the qila, where she grew up, Zara is caught up in family passions beyond her control and also tumbles into a maelstrom of rightwing Hindutva politics. All this leads to the unravelling of family secrets that her mother had kept from her. Maniza Naqvi’s anthology Karachi: Our Stories in Our Stories, consisting of ninety-nine stories submitted for a writing competition, has some work of interest, but should have been much, much more selective.
Moniza Alvi’s stunning new collection At the Time of Partition consists of twenty controlled, skilled, lyrical and haunting poems, interweaving the personal and the public. They were inspired by the shocking revelation that during her grandmother’s migration in 1947 from Ludhiana to Lahore, her brain-damaged son, Athar, was entrusted to the care of friends and disappeared. Alvi’s imaginative reconstruction of that journey also encapsulates, through the surreal quality of dreams and memory, the great migrations of history, a tale of conflict, trauma and loss, followed by adaptation, mutation and change. References to Nehru, Jinnah and Radcliffe are juxtaposed with the dilemmas and terrors of ordinary people, including the poet’s widowed grandmother and her five children, as they journey across a blood-stained region in a congested bus. The sense of danger, the tales of terrible atrocities are all built into the narrative. Eventually they reach a refugee camp in Lahore, but Athar does not arrive on the next bus as expected. Alvi describes his mother’s agony, her desperate search for him and gradually, the family settling into Lahore, as they – and Pakistan – grow older.
The prolific Ejaz Rahim also published a new collection Poems and Portraits which should have been more selective, but includes many topical poems such as “Malala”, “OBL” and “Tahir Square Revisited”. He also reveals a great sense of the absurd in the witty “Railway Minister” among others. His work is given a critical context by Anwar Dil’s Ejaz Rahim and His Poems: An Appreciation. The English Language Poetry of South Asians: A Critical Study by Mitali Pati Wong, and Syed Khwaja Moinul Hassan takes a transnational look at English poetry in the subcontinent and includes a number of major poets from Pakistan. The Collected Poems of Shahid Suhrawardy edited and introduced by Kaiser Haq, the distinguished Bangladeshi poet, is a real treat and consists of Faded Leaves, Essays in Verse and The Poems of Lee Hou Chu. The legacy of Suhrawardy, the first modern poet of undivided India, is shared by India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Haq’s excellent biographical and critical introduction includes insights into Suhrawardy’s work, his years in England and Tsarist Russia, his association with Stanislavsky and his friendship with D.H. Lawrence and others. The pioneering, bilingual Ahmed Ali is the subject of Two Sided Canvas: Perspectives on Ahmed Ali edited by Mehr Afshan Farooq, which consists of critical articles by distinguished scholars as well as Ali’s hitherto unpublished writings and letters.
In The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life Times and Work across the Indo-Pakistan Divide, the distinguished historian and Manto’s great-niece Ayesha Jalal says “Manto’s life and literature provide the historian with a novel way to address the complex relationship between the event and the processes of partition” (145). Jalal provides a lucid and incisive analysis of Manto alongside rare personal insights. She tells of Manto’s early years in Amritsar and his gestation as a writer. She attributes Manto’s profound understanding of women’s life to the influence of Nasira Iqbal, his sister, and Safia, his wife. She discusses Manto’s years in Bombay and his early stories; she asserts the importance of Manto’s character sketches as history. She writes of his friendship with Ismat Chughtai and the ban on his fiction and on hers for obscenity and later, of his trial, on similar charges, in the newly created Pakistan. She dwells on Manto’s horror at the Partition riots, and his questioning of “commonplace assumptions about Partition violence” (145) in his fiction. She examines Manto’s differences with the Progressive Writers and his satirical Letters to Uncle Sam on Pakistan’s relationship with the United States during the Cold War.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir’s Partition’s Post-amnesias: 1947, 1971 and Modern South Asia has links with her own family which was divided between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. She describes 1947 and 1971 as “profoundly interconnected” (25). She explores the shaping of identities in the three nations but pries out the missing narrative “the post-amnesia” – which she defines as a desire to reclaim “places lost to the immediate post-1947 and post-1971 generations” (26). She moves beyond official narratives of nationhood and gives a fascinating reading of cultural production – music, art, archaeology and literary texts. In “The Phantom Map” she looks at the symbolism of cartography as a process of reclamation and memorialization in Kartography by Kamila Shamsie, The Golden Age by Tahmima Anam and Point of Return by Siddharta Deb. “Terracotta Memories” focuses on the timeless art of the potter and its link with the soil. She discusses the work of the artist Zainul Abedin and the archaeologist A.H. Dani in pre-1971 Dhaka and Peshawer. In “Archaeogeography” she considers the antiquity of the subcontinent, including its Buddhist, Gandhara and Indus Valley civilizations and the expression of this by Pakistanis including the work of artist Bani Abidi, textile historian Nasreen Askari, and novelists Kamila Shamsie and Uzma Aslam Khan: Khan’s novel The Geometry of God hinges on the recent discovery of a pre-historic fossil near Islamabad – while official notions of Pakistan’s history date back to the first Muslim conquest in 711 AD. In “The Enchanted Delta”, Kabir focuses on Bengal, that “thrice-partitioned” region, and its neighbouring “twice-partitioned” Assam. She explores perceptions of Bengali culture in India and Bangladesh. She refers to films, music, the influence of Tagore and the impact of an urban Urdu culture. She analyses the pre-Partition novels Men and Rivers by Humayun Kabir, her great uncle, and Manik Bandhopadhyay’s Padma Maji and refers to the reverberations of Partition in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and his portrayal of pre-partition Bengal in The Hungry Tide.
Cara Cilano’s Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State is a pertinent, major and ground-breaking work on Pakistani English literature which discusses Pakistani nationhood, concepts of national identity and the relationship between religion and state. The book is divided into several sections, beginning with “From Nation to State” consisting of two chapters “1947” and “1971”. However, the inclusion of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, set in rural Punjab at Partition, as “a Pakistani novel” is confusing and highly debatable. Singh migrated to India in 1947 and published his novel in 1956. Cilano points out that Singh was born 1915 in western Punjab (now Pakistan) and his “geographical connection with the region makes his a provocative study of the nationalization of Partition literature” but wonders if this makes his book “an Indian novel or a Pakistani” (230). This raises more questions than it answers and no other Indian author is discussed. Cilano provides many insights into struggle for Independence and Pakistan in Mumtaz Shahnawaz’s The Heart Divided. She interprets memory, history and myth in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India, the portrayal of Pakistan’s Hindu minority in Sorayya Khan’s 5 Queen’s Road and the grand sweep of history across a century in the novels of Mehr Nigar Masroor and Sa’ad Ashraf. In “1971” she focuses on the resonances of class division, ethnic conflict and civil war in the debut novels of Shahbano Bilgrami, Moni Mohsin and co-authors Durdana Soomro and Ghazala Hameed. In “Islamic Nation? Islamic State?” she examines Tariq Ali’s historical “Islam Quintet” novels; she looks at debates within contemporary Pakistan at the rise of a new right wing religious extremism as marker of a Pakistani identity portrayed in novels such as Aslam Khan’s The Geometry of God, Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes and Shamsie’s Broken Verses. In “Multicultural nation, privileged state” she begins with “Karachi” and the changing face of that burgeoning, multi-ethnic, strife-riven city in several novels including The Thirteenth House by Adam Zameenzad. “The Zamindari System” looks at feudalism in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s stories and Nadeem Aslam’s Season of the Rainbirds and the exercise of absolute power in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke. The book leads up to 9/11 and an exploration of globalism and transgeographical universalist identity, beyond nationalism, in Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy, Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil and Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows.
The year saw several translations of interest including Vintage Chughtai, edited and translated by Tahira Naqvi, and New Urdu Writings from India and Pakistan, edited by Rakshanda Jalil, which includes new voices alongside established writers such as Jeelani Bano, Intizar Hussain, Hasan Manzar and Fahmida Riaz. The English language poet, Mahmood Jamal brings his own poetic sensibility to his translations in Faiz: Fifty Poems with many Faiz favourites such as “Do Not Ask of Me My Love”, “A Prison Nightfall” and “Freedom’s Dawn: August 1947”. Daybreak: Writings on Faiz, compiled and edited by Yasmeen Hameed, is an invaluable collection of essays by distinguished scholars including Faiz’s three major translators – Victor Kiernan, Naomi Lazard and Agha Shahid Ali, as well as Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Gopi Chand Narang, Frances Pritchett and Ralph Russell, among others. Pakistaniaat: Special Issue on Faiz Ahmed Faiz, guest edited by Amina Yaqin, provides excellent insights into Faiz’s oeuvre and includes Yaqin’s essay “The Worlding of Faiz” and a comparative study of exile and history in Faiz and Nadeem Aslam. There are critical articles by Geeta Patel, Christina Oesterheld, Sean Pue and Iftikhar Arif. Faiz’s daughter Salima Hashmi writes on the conservation of his letters, Aamer Hussein recalls his discovery of Faiz’s poetry and Shahrukh Husain tells of translating Faiz for the film In Custody. The online Sugar Mule: South Asia and the Diaspora guest edited by Soniah Kamal includes seven talented Pakistani English poets such as Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Waqas Khwaja and Illona Yusuf; there is accomplished fiction by Sabyn Javeri Jillani and Kamal, as well as Kamal’s memoir essay.
The increasing English language literary activity in Pakistan includes two dynamic online literary journals, Papercuts and The Missing Slate, which include fiction, poetry, translations and writings on art. Both bring together new and established Pakistani and international writers. Papercuts published its first print edition which included translation of Afzal Ahmed Syed by Taimur Shahid and Hasan Dars by Mohammed Hanif and Gobind Menghwar. The Missing Slate brought out a “Pakistan Writers Feature” with an introduction by Muneeza Shamsie and accomplished contributions by well-known writers ranging from the fiction of Hamid, Shamsie, and Aamer Hussein to the poetry of Kyla Pasha and translations of Abdullah Hussein and Azra Abbas. In the Pakistan press, The News International carried an incisive special report “A Historical View of Significant Books by Pakistani Generals” while Dawn’s “Books and Authors” continue to hold its own as Pakistan’s only full length book supplement with Intizar Hussain’s column as an added bonus.
There has always been an extensive output of non-fiction in Pakistan. Malala Yousufzai’s autobiography co-written by Christina Lamb I Am Malala is particularly insightful, even though Lamb’s voice does intrude sometimes. Malala writes of the spectacular mountain landscape of Swat to which she belongs. History, politics, legend, culture and customs are interwoven with her mother’s strength of character, her father’s brief involvement with jihadism, his individuality, his enquiring mind and the education which turned him into a dynamic activist and teacher. He encouraged Malala’s love of learning and stood up to right wing extremists who forbade schools for girls. Malala describes the notorious infiltration and takeover of Swat by the Taliban and the circumstances which led to her BBC blog, her growing public campaign for girls’ education in Pakistan and her targeted shooting by the Taliban.
In Language, Gender and Power Shahid Siddiqui investigates the use of Urdu and English to define gender roles in Pakistan. He looks at humour, daily speech, media and nursery rhymes. He includes a chapter on Urdu’s great women rebels such as Rashid Jahan, Ismat Chugtai, Kishwar Naheed and Fahmida Riaz. Naz Ikramullah’s Ganga Jamuni: Silver and Gold: A Forgotten Culture excavates a symbiotic pre-Partition culture through music, dance, customs and rituals. Memoirs of the Badshahi Mosque by Talha Jalal is an exception book, which tells of the famous mosque’s history, architecture and renovations from Aurangzeb’s time to the present day through old and new photographs, drawings, travelogues and letters, including a fascinating one-hundred-page appendix consisting of correspondence between various officials from 1850 to 1919. Among travel books there was great critical acclaim for the travel books Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Travel Writer by Raza Rumi and The Land of the Deosai by Salman Rashid with photographs by Nadeem Khawar.
Several books analysed Pakistan’s role in geopolitics and the threat of extremism. Hussain Haqqani’s Magnificent Delusions is a sharp political analysis of the relationship between Pakistan and the United States. Akbar Ahmed’s learned and thought provoking The Thistle and the Drone focuses on Pakistan’s Tribal Areas and Waziristan. He explains the traditional structure of tribal society, its disruption by al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The impact of international conflict, including American bombing and Pakistan’s military incursions include a chapter each on bin Laden, Musharraf and Obama. Mohammed Hanif interviews families of victims in his brief but powerful The Baloch Who Is Not Missing and Others Who Are and indicts arbitrary arrests and extra-judicial killings in strife-riven Baluchistan. Babar Ayaz’s What’s Wrong with Pakistan? provides a lucid analysis of Pakistan including its genesis and its state structures, foreign policy, military rule and sectarian conflict.
From all this it can be surmised that Pakistani English fiction continues to dominate creative output, although there were outstanding works of drama and poetry, if fewer in number. There was also a growing trend for literary criticism with really important books on Pakistani English literature. This was supplemented by literary journals and the Pakistani press. There were significant translations too as well as non-fiction, ranging from life writing to political analyses. Sadly, the year saw the loss of Mohammed Ali Siddiqui, the distinguished critic and scholar, also known for his column in Dawn, under the pen-name “Ariel”. He is deeply mourned.
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The Baloch Who Is Not Missing & Others Who Are Mohammed Hanif 46pp Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (Lahore) Rs150.
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Drama
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Sheikh, Moazzam Café Le Whore and Other Stories 122pp Weavers Press (San Fransciso) US$14
Sidhwa, Bapsi Their Language of Love 240pp Ilqa Publications (Lahore) Rs395.
Tanweer, Bilal The Scatter Here Is Too Great 203pp Random House India (New Delhi) Rs695.
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Ali, Nadir “Mangta the Sarangi Player” trans from Punjabi by Moazzam Sheikh Bengal Lights Spring pp155-157.
Chughtai, Ismat Vintage Chughtai: A Selection of Her Best Stories trans from Urdu by Tahira Naqvi 259pp Women Unlimited (New Delhi) US$9.99.
Faiz, Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Fifty Poems selected and trans from Urdu by Mahmood Jamal 212pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs495 [see
Iqbal, Muhammed Iqbal and God – the Plaint and Response to the Plaint trans from Urdu by Sheikh Abdul Malik 159pp Paramount Books (Karachi) Rs395 [trans of Iqbal’s “Shikwa” and “Jawaab-e-Shikwa”].
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—– “As We Came from the Holy Land” B&A (Karachi) 16 Jun p3 (travel essay).
—– “In Indonesia: Discovering the Literature” Dawn B&A, (Karachi) 3 Nov pp3-4.
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Rumi, Raza Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Travel Writer Raza Rumi 362pp HarperCollins (New Delhi) Rs399.
Shamsie, Muneeza “The Words of Women” Fifty Shades of Feminism Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes, Susie Orbach eds Virago (London) pp213-216.
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Yousufzai, Malala with Christina Lamb I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 288pp Weidenfelt & Nicholson (London) Rs18.99.
Anthologies
Karachi: Our Stories in Our Words Maniza Naqvi 360pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs475 [fiction].
New Urdu Writing from India and Pakistan ed Rakhshanda Jalil [see
This Side: That Side: Restorying Partition (Graphic Narratives from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh ed Vishwajyoti Ghosh 329pp Yoda Press (New Delhi) Rs995 [graphic book includes work by Pakistanis].
Criticism
“Autobiography and Muslim Women’s Lives” Amina Yaqin Journal of Women’s History 25(2) Women’s Autobiography in South Asia and the Middle East pp171-184.
“Life/History/Archive: Identifying Autobiographical Writing by Muslim Women in South Asia” Siobhan Lambert-Hurley Journal of Women’s History 25(2) Women’s Autobiography in South Asia and the Middle East pp61-84.
“Advocacy without Footnotes: Pakistani Cultural Production and Human Rights” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 31 Mar p3.
“The Confessional Mode” Zulfikar Ghose Dawn B&A (Karachi) Aug 18 pp3-4.
Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State 280pp Cara Cilano (Routledge) US$90.
“Countering the ‘Oppressed, Kidnapped Genre’ of Muslim Life Writing: Yasmin Hai’s The Making of Mr Hai’s Daughter and Shelina Zahra Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf “ Claire Chambers Life Writing 10(1) Women’s Life Writing and Diaspora pp77-96.
The English Language Poetry of South Asians: A Critical Study Mitali Pati Wong and Syed Khwaja Moinul Hassan 206pp Mcfarland (Jefferson NC) US$55.
“From the Guadalquivir to the Edge of the Indus” Syed Nomanul Haq Dawn B&A (Karachi) Mar 10 p3.
“History, Poetry, and Pragmatics” Syed Nomanul Haq Dawn B&A (Karachi) 21 Oct p3 [2012].
“Islamophobia: Orwellian Newspeak or Racially Inflected Hatred” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 21 July p3.
“On the Virtues of Vices: The Counter Logics of Poetry” Nomanul Haq Dawn B&A (Karachi) July 7 p3.
Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971 and Modern South Asia Ananya Jahanara Kabir 318pp Women Unlimited (New Delhi) Rs475.
“Reframing ‘Violence’, Transforming Impressions: Images in Contemporary Pakistani Visual Art and English Language Fiction” Madeleine Clements Wasafiri 77 Spring pp46-55.
“‘Saying’ the Ghazal: Duende and Performing the Courtly Art of the Ghazal’ 14 Oct 3 Quarks Daily http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/10/saying-the-ghazal-duende-and-performing-the-courtly-art-of-the-ghazal.html.
—– “The Qasida as a Vehicle of Desire in Lorca’s ‘Casida de La Rosa’” 11 Nov 3 Quarks Daily http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/11/the-qasida-as-a-vehicle-of-desire-in-lorcas-casida-de-la-rosa-.html.
“Theatre and Human Rights” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 26 Mar p3.
“Women’s Autobiography in Islamic Societies: Towards a Feminist Intellectual History” Sadaf Jaffer Journal of Women’s History 25 (2) Women’s Autobiography in South Asia and the Middle East pp153-160.
Abdul Kadir, Irshad “Book Review Clifton Bridge: Stories of Innocence and Experience from Pakistan” Zargoosh Asambari The Daily Times (Lahore) 10 March; “Review: Clifton Bridge: Stories of Innocence and Experience from Pakistan ” Adil Mamun Dawn B&A (Karachi) 20 Apr p2; “A Mirror to One’s Country”; “The Art of Short Story” Raza Rumi The Friday Times (Lahore) 21 Apr [reviews of Clifton Bridge].
Adil, Mamun “The Journey Within” Rafay Ahmed Herald July p96 [review of Seasons of Silence by Mamnun Adil].
Ahmed, Jamil “Reviews: The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmed and Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Matthew by Shehan Karunatilika” Khalid Nauman Wasafiri 75 Autumn pp77-78.
Ali, Ahmed, The Two-Sided Canvas: Perspectives on Ahmed Ali Mehr Afshan Farooqi ed 240pp Oxford Univ Press (New Delhi) Rs895.
—– “Ahmed Ali: The Borders of Language” MehrAfshan Farooqi Dawn B&A (Karachi) 3 Feb p3.
Alvi, Moniza “In a Family’s History, a Nation’s” Muneeza Shamsie Dawn B&A (Karachi) 15 Dec pp1-2 [review of At the Time of Partition].
Aslam, Nadeem “Language Is like the Skin on My Thoughts” The Friday Times (Lahore) 1-7 Mar p26; “Mystery Is All There Is” Michael E. Halmshaw Guernica Magazine 15 Aug http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/mystery-is-all-there-is/E [interviews].
—– “The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam” Razestha Sethna Dawn B&A (Karachi) 17 Mar pp1-2 [review +interview].
—– “To Turn a Blind Eye” Rakhshanda Jalil The Friday Times (Lahore) 5-11 Apr p24 [review of The Blind Man’s Garden].
Aslam Khan, Uzma “Thinner than Skin: Uzma Aslam Khan” Razestha Sethna Dawn B&A (Karachi) 27 Jan p1-3 [review + interview].
—– “Harsh and Unforgivable” Mahvesh Murad Herald (Karachi) Mar p98 [review of Thinner than Skin].
Bhutto, Fatima “Lost in the Plot” Zehra Nabi Newsline (Karachi) Dec pp60-61.
Dharker, Imtiaz “‘Beyond the ‘Purdah of the Mind’: Gender, Religion and Diasporic Imagining in Poetry of Imtiaz Dharker” Abin Chakraporty Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies 4(3).
Durrani, Tehmina “Tehmina Durrani’s War in Wonderland: The Story of an Invincible Nation” Khaled Ahmed Newsweek Pakistan (Lahore) 30 Jun.
Faiz, Faiz Ahmed Daybreak: Writings on Faiz Yasmeen Hameed ed 402pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs995.
—– Faiz, Folk Heritage and Problems of Culture Ahmed Saleem and Humaira Isfaq eds 238pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs2200.
—– Faiz: Fifty Poems [see
—– Pakistaniaat 5(1) Special Issue on Faiz Ahmed Faiz [see
Ghose, Zulfikar “Unwilled Choices: The Exilic Perspectives on Home and Location in the Works of Zulfikar Ghose and Mohsin Hamid” Muhammed Safeer Awan Pakistaniaat 5(2) pp6-21 [see also
Haider, Shazaf Fatima “Forever After” Rimmel Mohyeddin Dawn B&A (Karachi) 24 Mar p5 [review of How It Happened].
Hamid, Mohsin The Reluctant Fundamentalist: From Book to Film Mira Nair 20pp Penguin Studio Penguin Books India (New Delhi) Rs995.
—– “The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Back to the Basics” Madeeha Syed Dawn: Images (Karachi) 2 Jun p1 [review of the film The Reluctant Fundamentalist].
—– “One Art Inspiring the Other: Mohsin Hamid on the Film Version of His Book” Sara Faruqi Dawn Images (Karachi) 2 June p1.
—– “Unwilled Choices: The Exilic Perspectives on Home and Location in the Works of Zulfikar Ghose and Mohsin Hamid” [see also
—– “The Global and the Postcolonial in Post-migratory Literature” Ahmed Gamal Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49(5) Special Issue: Networking the Globe: New Technologies and the Postcolonial pp596-608 [focus on Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist].
—– “A Guide Will Take You Only So Far” Mahvesh Murad Dawn B&A (Karachi) 31 Mar 31 [review of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia].
—– “Book Review: Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia” Claire Chambers Huffington Post 25 Mar http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-claire-chambers/book-review-mohsin-hamid-_b_2947162.html.
Hamid, Omar Shahid “Many Shades of Grey” Umber Khairi The News International (Karachi) 15 Dec 15 [review of The Prisoner +interview].
Hanif, Mohammed “We Should Agree to Become a Violent Society” Abdullah Zaidi The Friday Times (Lahore) Mar15-21 p22 [interview].
Hashmi, Shadab Zeest “Q&A with Shadab Zeest Hashmi” Soniah Kamal 29 Aug 3 Quarks Daily http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/08/q-a-with-shadab-zeest-hashmi.html
—– “A Conversation with Fady Joudah and Anis Shivani” The Quarks Daily 9 Dec http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/12/a-conversation-with-fady-joudah-and-anis-shivani.html [see also
Husain, Shahrukh “Book Review: The Restless Wind: Princely Pursuits” Zahrah Mazhar Express Tribune (Karachi) 17 Nov.
Husain, Intizar “Exploring the Trajectory of Basti” 2 Jun; “Anomie in the land of hope: A Brief Introduction to Intizar Husain’s novel Basti” Dawn B&A; “Requiem for Vanished Hopes: Intizar Husain’s Early Fiction” 4 Aug Muhammed Umar Memon Dawn B&A (Karachi) p3.
—– “Exploring the Trajectory of Basti” Kamila Shamsie Dawn B&A (Karachi) 2 Jun p3 [see
Hussein, Aamer “Aamer Hussein on Nisar Aziz Butt” Asymptote Jan http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Special_Feature&id=99&curr_index=25&curPage=archive#sthash.S2ovlNSB.dpuf.
—– “Literary Notes: Writing in Urdu” Dawn B&A (Karachi) Intizar Hussain 24 Mar pp8 [on Aamer Hussein’s Urdu fiction].
—– “‘My concerns aren’t only to do with the fact that we were once a colonized people’: A Conversation with Aamer Hussein” Mushtaq ur Rasool Bilal Postcolonial Text 8(2) pp1-16
—– and Ritu Menon “The Distant Traveller: Celebrating Attia Hosain 1993-1998” Wasafiri.Extra http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=341 [on the discovery of Hosain’s unpublished work for The Distant Traveller eds Aamer Hussein and Shama Habibullah, see
—– “A Woman for All Seasons” Newsline (Karachi) Muneeza Shamsie Dec pp67-69 [article on The Distant Traveller by Attia Hosain).
Manto, Sa’adat Hasan The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times and Work across the Indo-Pakistan Divide Ayesha Jalal 268pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs895.
Menon, Ritu and Aamer Hussein “The Distant Traveller: Celebrating Attia Hosain” [see
Naqvi, Maniza “Review: Karachi: Our Stories in Our Words” Mohsin Siddiqi Dawn B&A (Karachi) 1 Jun p2; “What Happens in Karachi” Sabahat Zakariya Friday Times (Lahore) Jun14-20 [reviews of Karachi: Our Stories in Our Words].
—– “Writing Is like a Walk through the City” Rumana Hussain The News International: Literati: (Karachi) 18 Aug [interview].
Rahim, Ejaz Ejaz Rahim and His Poems: An Appreciation Anwer Dil 240pp Intercultural Forum (San Diego and Islamabad) and Dost Publications (Islamabad Karachi Lahore) Rs475.
Rahman, Tariq “Situating Identity on an Individual Trait” Fauzia Janjua International Journal of English Literature 3(4) Oct pp43-48 [analysis of “Bingo” by Tariq Rahman].
Razvi, Murtaza “Murtaza Razvi: My Friend” Khuda Bux Abro Dawn Blog 18 Apr http://www.dawn.com/news/803429/murtaza-razvi-my-friend [obituary].
—– “Razvi’s World without Him” Farrukh Kamrani Express Tribune (Karachi) 21 Jul; “Through the Looking Glass” Saima Shakeel Hussain Dawn B&A (Karachi) 1 Sept p1; “Tales of Yore” Zehra Nabi Newsline (Karachi) July pp91-92; “Sheikhu’s Narration to Rani” Aasim Akhtar The News International: Literati (Karachi) 25 Aug [reviews of Pittho’s World].
Shahraz, Qaisra “My World Is Peopled by Many Women” Aasim Akhtar The News International:Literati “(Karachi) 14 Jul.
Shafqat, Saad “More than a Medical Thriller” Farah Zia The News Interantional: Literati (Karachi) 8 Sept [interview+review].
Shamsie, Kamila “The Global and the Postcolonial in Post-migratory Literature” Ahmed Gamal [focus on Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, see this section: Hamid, Mohsin].
Shivani, Anis “A Conversation with Fady Joudah and Anis Shivani” Shadab Zeest Hashmi [interview, see
Sidhwa, Bapsi “Impressions about Lahore” The News Literati (Karachi) 24 Feb [review of illustrated edition of Beloved City].
Suleri, Sara “An Intimate Disconnection: Sara Suleri and the ‘Great Machine at the Heart of Things: H-I-S-T-O-R-Y’” Jenni Ramone Life Writing 10(1) Women’s Life Writing and Diaspora pp61-76.
Tahir, Athar “Epiphany of Experiences” Sarwat Ali The News Literati (Karachi) 14 April [review of A Gift of Possession].
Tanweer, Bilal “I Want to Get to the Voice of My Characters”; “Interpretating A City” Farah Zia The News International: Encore and Literati (Karachi) Dec 8 [interview+review].
Yusuf, Ilona “Reading Pakistan” Ammara Khan Dawn B&A (Karachi) 10 Mar [review of Vallum: Poets from Pakistan guest eds Ilona Yusuf and Blaine Marchand].
Non-fiction
Abbas, Shemeem Burney Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws: From Islamic Empires to the Talbian 222pp Univ of Texas Press (Austin) US$55.
Afzal, M. Rafique A History of the All India Muslim League 1906-1947 805pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1595.
Ahmad, Ali Nobil Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration: Human Smuggling from Pakistan to Europe 230pp Ashgate (Farnham UK) £65.
Ahmed, Akbar The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Issues 424pp Brookings Institution Press (Washington) Rs1195.
Ahmed, Ishtiaq Pakistan: The Garrison State: Origins, Evolution, Consequences 1947–2011 508pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1295.
Alam, Khursheed Calligraply: Gauhar Qalam 260pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs10, 000.
Amjad, Rashid and Shahid Javed Burki eds Pakistan: Moving the Economy Forward 608pp Lahore School of Economics (Lahore) US$20 [see
Ayaz, Babar What’s Wrong with Pakistan 347pp Hay House (New Delhi) Rs995.
Bajwa, Abu Bakr Amin Inside Waziristan: Journey from War to Peace – an Insight into the Taliban Movement and an Account of Protecting People from Terrorists 168pp Vanguard (Lahore) Rs895.
Bajwa, Khalid W. Urban Pakistan: Frames for Imagining and Reading Urbanism 550pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1295.
Burki, Shahid Javed and Amjad Rashid eds Pakistan: Moving the Economy Forward [see
Cossins, Noel Man in the Hat: The Story of Shoaib Sultan Khan and the Rural Poor of South Asia 709pp Vanguard (Lahore) Rs1495.
Hasan, Mussarat Ijazul Hassan: Five Decades of Painting 298pp Lahore Art Gallery (Lahore) Rs4000.
Hussain, Haqqani Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States and an Epic History of Misunderstanding 300pp Public Affairs (New York) Rs1600.
Hewitt, Farida Azhar The Other Side of Silence: The Lives of Women in the Karakorum Range pp236 iUniverse (Bloomington) US$19.95 [2011].
Hussain, Mushahid Punjabi Taliban: Driving Extremism in Pakistan 224pp Pentagon Press (Washington) $51.77 [2012].
Jalalzai, Musa Khan Punjab Taliban: Extremism, Talibanisation and the Fight for Saraikistan 177pp Royal Book Company (Karachi) Rs695.
Javaid, Umbreen Pakistan Fights Extremism and Terror 210pp Vanguard (Pakistan) Rs995.
Khalid, Haroon A White Trail: A Journey into the Heart of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities 354pp Westland (Chennnai) Rs217.
Kamran, Mujahid The Inspiring Life of Abdus Salam 329pp University of Punjab Press (Lahore).
Khan, Dina Mixed Race Marriage in Pakistan: Politics of Identity 276pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs990.
Khawar, Nadeem and Salman Rashid Deosai [see
Mahmood, Ali Saints and Sinners 448 pp HarperCollins India (New Delhi) Rs599.
Malkani, Zain and Murtaza Shikoh eds Architect Mehdi Ali Mirza: Pioneer of Architecture in Pakistan 160pp Arch Press (Karachi) Rs2500 [see
Naqvi, Saiyid Ali Indus Waters and Social Change: The Evolution an Transition of Agrarian Society in Pakistan 844pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs2900.
Noorani, Asif Journey through Pakistan (revised and updated) 243pp Liberty Books (Karachi) Rs3995 (new edition of Journey through Pakistan by Mohammed Amin, first pub Hunter Publishing (NJ) 1995].
Pervez, Amjad Melody Makers of the Subcontinent 308pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs995.
Rahman, Taimur The Class Structure of Pakistan 326pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs995.
Rashid, Salman, and Nadeem Khawar Deosai: Land of the Giant 176pp Sang-e-Meel Publications (Lahore) Rs2000 [see
Sattar, Abdul Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: A Concise History 394pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs395.
Shikoh, Murtaza and Zain Malkani Ali eds Architect Mehdi Ali Mirza [see
Sultan-i-Rome The North-West Frontier (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa): Essays on History: 583pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1250.
Journals
Annual of Urdu Studies ed Muhammed Umar Memon University Wisconsin, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia,1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
The Critical Muslim eds Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin-Kassab Muslim Institute & C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 41 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3PL subs UK £50; Europe £65; Rest of the World £75 [each issue has a specific theme: 05: Love and Death; 06: Reclaiming Andalus; 07: Muslim Archipelago; 08: Men in Islam].
Pakistan Perspectives: Biannual Research Journal ed Sabiha Hasan Pakistan Study Centre University of Karachi subs Single Rs250 International US$30; Special Issue Rs300 International US$40; Annual Rs500 (US$60); Airmail (US$15, for two issues). The Administrative Officer, Pakistan Study Centre POBox 8450, University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270 email:
Papercuts 12: Dog Eat Dog Fall ed Afia Aslam Desiwriters Lounge Pakistan subs enquiries
Special Issues
Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4 ed John Freeman pp395 Granta Publications 12 Addison Avenue, London W11 4QR £12.99.
The Missing Slate: Journal of Art and Literature 9 Summer Pakistan Writers Feature ed Maryam Piracha Low Key/Slate Publications, Pakistan [see
Moving Worlds: a Journal of Transcultural Writings 13(2) Postcolonial Cities: South Asia Special Issue guest ed Caroline Herbert School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. Email:
Pakistaniaat: Journal of Pakistan Studies 5(1) Special Issue on Faiz Ahmed Faiz guest ed Amina Yaqin [see
Sugar Mule 43: No Place Like Home: Borders, Boundaries, and Identity in South Asia and Diaspora” guest ed Soniah Kamal ed ML Weber [see
Internet Sites
3Quarks Daily <www.3quarksdaily.com>.
Annual of Urdu Studies <www.urdustudies.com>.
Asymptote <www.asymptotejournal.com>.
Guernica Magazine <www.guernicamag.com>.
The Literary Encyclopedia <www.litencyc.com> [has several detailed Pakistan entries].
The Missing Slate <themissingslate.com >.
Papercuts <www.desiwriterslounge.net/papercuts>.
Sugarmule <www.sugarmule;.com/index2.htm>.
*Dawn: Books and Authors Supplement