Abstract
Introduction
The year 2014 continued to be very productive for Pakistani English literature. There were critically acclaimed novels by Hanif Kureishi, Moni Mohsin, Kamila Shamsie and Bina Shah, an accomplished debut by Soniah Kamal and story collections by Aamer Hussein and Rukhsana Ahmad. There was a dazzling poetry collection by Imtiaz Dharker, a thought-proving play by Tariq Ali and a collection of four Ayub Khan Din dramas. The diverse offering of non-fiction included incisive political analyses by Ayesha Jalal, Syeda Abida Hussain’s lively autobiography, Ziauddin’s Sardar’s combination of travelogue, memoir and history, Reema Abbasi’s exploration of Pakistan’s Hindu temples and Rosemary Raza’s look at colonial illustrations of Sindh. There were several important translations, including the poetry of Zeeshan Sahil, the feminist writing of Kishwar Naheed and her pre-Partition predecessors Rashid Jahan and Ismat Chughtai, two versions Angaaray and Angarey of a historic story collection, a reprint of Taufiq Rafat’s famous Bulleh Shah. There was a new critical work by Cara Cilano, a collection of critical essays co-edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert, and a special Pakistani poetry issue in The Atlanta Review.
The seventeen-year-old Malala Yousufzai, co-author of I Am Malala was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became the youngest recipient of a Nobel Prize. Several writers received literary awards or nominations. Mohsin Hamid’s novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia won the Tiziano Terzani International Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt International Literature Award; Nadeem Aslam received the Windham Campbell Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Award for The Blind Man’s Garden; Bilal Tanweer’s debut The Scatter Here Is Too Great won the Shakti Bhatt Award; both Tanweer and Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone were shortlisted for the DSC award. The Karachi Literature festival awards were given to Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner than Skin (fiction), Osama Siddique’s Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law (non-fiction), Akbar S. Ahmed’s The Thistle and the Drone (peace prize). Reema Abbasi’s Historic Temples in Pakistan: A Call to Conscience received the Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award. Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Kohl and Chalk won the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize and the San Diego Book Award; Imtiaz Dharker received The Queen’s Medal for Poetry in Britain.
Dharker’s award-winning sixth collection Over the Moon, is dedicated to Simon Powell, her late husband, who died of cancer. The poems are essentially a silent conversation with him and create a lyrical, finely controlled interplay of absence and memory: Powell exists on the edges as an ever-present, living spirit. In “Taal”, the images of dance and dancer are enhanced by the musical beat: dha dhin dhin dha captures the rapid, swirling movement of time. The lyrical “Hiraeth, Old Bombay” commemorates a lost past and missed possibilities. Most of the poems are set in Britain. Often, death is ever-present in the references to darkness, tunnels, a train rushing by, while “Rapt” describes a peregrine falcon’s aerial view of London, the city where Dharker and Powell lived. A moving sequence describes Powell’s last days and includes “You Said Something I Did Not Understand”, “Vigil”, and “The Other Side of Silence”. “Threshold” includes an intertextual reference to the Arabic Laila-Majnu legend describing grief and despair; “I Swear” is one of several celebrating Dharker and Powell’s shared life and laughter.
The three poetry volumes by Ejaz Rahim’s Roots at the Edge, That Frolicsome Mosquito, Our University and Through the Eyes of the Heart, appear to be the only notable collections published in Pakistan, though they need selective pruning. The only new published play appears to be Tariq Ali’s The Further Adventures of Don Quixote, a lively combination of wit, anger and polemics to comment on the modern age. First performed in Germany, it engages with both Cervantes and Bertolt Brecht and transports Don Quixote and Sancho Panza into the twenty-first century; they find much that is both familiar and confusing. The power of money in an unequal global world, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the rhetoric of racism are all built into a script which turns out to have been written by Don Quixote’s horse, Rosinante, and Sancho Panza’s mule: they read Cicero, Hegel, Marx, Montaigne and ponder upon humankind. There was also an excellent collection of Ayub Khan Din’s dramas Plays One, consisting of “East is East”, “Notes on Falling Leaves”, “All the Way Home” and “To Sir with Love”.
Kamila Shamsie’s lyrical new novel A God in Every Stone is an epic on a grand scale, where history and archaeology illuminate the protagonists, the city of Peshawar and nationalist pre-Partition politics. The narrative connects the lives of an Englishwoman, Vivienne Rose Spencer, Qayyum, a Pathan soldier wounded at Ypres in World War I, and his younger brother Najeeb in Peshawar. Vivienne joins a team of archaeologists in Turkey in an area the ancient Greeks called Caria. The outbreak of World War I divides Vivienne and her colleagues, including the Turkish Tahsin Bey, into enemy countries. He has often spoken of Scylax, who belonged to Caria and was sent by the Persian king Darius to explore Packtiya in the distant east: there Scylax reached Caspatyrus (Peshawar) and the Indus. This crucial link unites and permeates Shamsie’s narrative and leads to Vivienne’s sojourn in Peshawar in British India. Najeeb, a bright schoolboy acts as a guide. Fifteen years later in 1930, Najeeb a senior Peshawar Museum official, asks for her help in the unfulfilled search for Scylax’s missing circlet. But Vivienne’s trip coincides with the notorious 23rd-April massacre by the British in Peshawar’s Qissa Kahani Bazaar, which was hushed up by the authorities. Shamsie brings it terrifying alive and also welds in Qayyum’s commitment to Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s non-violent struggle for independence.
The relationship between life and art, autobiography, biography and fiction runs through Hanif Kureishi’s riveting new novel The Last Word. Kureishi explores the relationship between a writer and his biographer through the character of the celebrated British Asian novelist Mamoon and Harry, who is writing a book on him and tries to ferret out secrets. Roopa Farooki’s intricate novel The Good Children revolves around a prosperous doctor’s family and is dominated by his fierce, demanding and ambitious wife in Lahore. Their sons, Sully (Suleman) and Jakey (Jamal Kamal), become successful doctors in America and New York, respectively; their daughters Mae and Lana marry successful men in Lahore. But here, the expected trajectory ends. Sully marries a Hindu; Jakey is gay. Mae and Lana divorce their philandering husbands. The narrative moves between past and present as the four emotionally crippled siblings gather at their father’s funeral and later their dying comatose mother’s bedside, though Farooki describes the diaspora with much greater confidence than Pakistan.
Bina Shah’s carefully wrought novel A Season for Martyrs tells of Ali, a young Karachi journalist and estranged son of a feudal Sindhi landlord and his quest for empowerment and self, which also embodies that of Sindh and Benazir Bhutto. Ali covers Benazir’s triumphal return to Pakistan in October 2007, which is shattered by the first assassination attempt on her life. Over the next few weeks, he reports her speeches, battles against censorship and participates in street protests. The narrative is enriched by alternating chapters which combine history and oral lore to tell of Sindh and its past, creating an alternative, subversive narrative, different to that of officialdom, ranging from Napier’s conquest of Sind in 1847 to the executions of the Pir of Pagaro in World War II and of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979; the last two become a prelude to Benazir’s assassination in December 2007. The Sufi poetry of Shah Abdul Latif, combining the mystical and the romantic, becomes a metaphor for Benazir’s love for her homeland and Ali’s love for Sunita, a Sindhi Hindu.
Javed Qazi’s voluminous, romantic novel The Remingtons in India tells of Katherine, a young Englishwoman who returns to colonial India where she grew up. In this world of Viceregal durbars, soldiers serving in the Frontier Force, danger and adventure, two men vie for her affections and her brother falls in love with an Indian princess.
Moni Mohsin’s The Return of the Butterfly is the third novel in her sequence employing a clever satirical hybrid language to portray the dizzy world of Butterfly, the Lahore socialite, but Pakistan’s political turmoil and violence are increasingly infringing on Butterfly’s cocooned word. The assassinations of Benazir Bhutto and Salman Taseer, the power of right-wing extremists, and the political rhetoric of Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif are all built into this entertaining and incisive novel.
The year saw several debuts of interest including Saba Imtiaz’s satirical novel Karachi You’re Killing Me, which record the misadventures of a professional journalist Ayesha, a young single woman in racy, chaotic and dangerous Karachi. Soniah Kamal’s powerful and harrowing first novel Isolated Incident revolves around strife-riven Kashmir, that epicentre of unending conflict between India and Pakistan. A young Kashmiri woman, Zari Zoon is the only survivor of an attack on her family in Srinagar by nameless, unidentified men. Kamal portrays Zari’s trauma with remarkable skill, including the tricks of memory, her inability to sleep or interact with others and the voices she hears in her head. Zari is given shelter in distant America by a relative, a medical doctor, who tries to help her. Soon, a different crisis festers in his home. His college-going, American-born son Baz falls in love with her. He believes that his grandfather was a Kashmiri freedom fighter and is outraged at his parents’ refusal to talk about it. Baz promptly joins an underground group, only to find his training camp is not in Kashmir, but among radicalized Pakistanis in Afghanistan. He discovers that his grandfather was but a common criminal and his notion of a heroic family history is as much a myth as is the heroism of war.
Ali Eteraz followed up his much-praised memoir with his first story collection, Falsipides and Fibsiennes revolving around desire, illusion and false hope. Several capture life in the oil-rich Gulf and its hierarchy of power and prejudice. “The Woman in a Scorpion Abaya” captures the mystique, mystery and sexual power of a veiled woman and the fantasies she deliberately fosters to entrap and enslave her Pakistani-American admirer. Other stories are set in different lands, including modern America and pre-Islamic Arabia; many end with a macabre unexpected twist, though the quality of the work does vary. The finest work includes “The Monster”, an imaginative reconstruction of the Greek legend of Theseus and Minotaur: Eteraz’s narrator is the suffering but honourable Minotaur.
Rukhsana Ahmad, playwright, translator and fiction writer, published her first story collection The Gatekeeper’s Wife. The title story, set in Lahore, tells of an expatriate British woman’s concern over the food given to local zoo animals, while the gatekeeper’s wife steals the meat to feed her starving family. The accomplished “Confessions and Lullabies” is narrated by a lace doily and juxtaposes the despairing life of its mad, impoverished owner, Amy, in London, with that of Adi, the poor Indian woman who created the doily in distant India. Ahmed portrays the mental breakdown and despairing lives of women with great sensitivity in stories such as “Nightmare” and “Cassandra and the Viaduct”. She writes with great insight, too, into Pakistan’s class divide and its inherent exploitation in “My Daughter Mona” and “A Day for Nuggo”. “First Love” is a particularly fine work, constructed through the diary entries of a young British Asian girl, which tell of her older brother joining the The Royal Air Force, his passion for flying, and his untimely but heroic death, preventing an intruder from hijacking his airplane.
Aamer Hussein’s The Swan’s Wife reveals a new direction in his work: Hussein has started to write Urdu stories and then translate them into English. This includes the elegant title story, which is rich in symbolism and nuance; imbued with the metaphorical South Asian legend of “The Swan’s Wife”, it is replete with stunning images of swans on a London lake and tells of a thwarted romance, exploitation and complex emotional relationships. Most the collection consists of stories written originally in English. “Nine Postcards and Nine Notes”, co-written with Alev Adil, consists of two cleverly alternating, interrelated narratives, Alev’s “Refika’s Notebook” and Hussein’s “Umair’s Postcards” to tell of the London-based friends, Refika and Umair and their journey to Southern Spain. This becomes a contemplation of history, identity and cultural symbiosis amid the jasmine and bougainvillea and historic buildings echoing a distant Euro-Arab past. Adaptation, identity and belonging run through “The Tree at the Limit” which reconstructs the story of the Italian-born, Karachi-based artist Marya Mahmud through her miniature paintings and conversations with her children.
In 1932, four young Marxists, Ahmed Ali, Rashid Jahan, Mahmood-uz-Zafar and Sajjad Zaheer, co-authored their historic Urdu story collection. Their unflinching portrayal of society caused outrage, was condemned for blasphemy and banned. This led to the hugely influential Progressive Writers Movement in the book’s defence. Snehal Shingavi’s Angaaray is a new translation with an informed introduction. Several stories provide a biting attack on patriarchy and gender roles, including Mahmud-uz-Zafar’s “Virility”, Rashid Jahan’s “Seeing the Sights of Delhi” and her play “In the Women’s Quarters”. The collection also provides a harrowing portrait of social iniquity and endemic poverty, a theme central to Ahmed Ali’s stories: “The Clouds Aren’t Coming” and “The Night of Winter Rains”. Both are perhaps the earliest examples of stream-of-consciousness Urdu fiction. Zaheer’s contributions include “A Vision of Heaven”, attacking a maulvi’s social and sexual hypocrisy. The year also saw the second translation of Vibhan S. Chauhan and Khalid Alvi’s Angarey. Both are regarded as works of great merit despite vast differences of approach, language and nuance, but only Shingavi’s seems to be available in Pakistan.
There was a strong focus on translations of feminist writing. Rakshanda Jalil’s A Rebel and Her Cause consists of Rashid Jahan’s biography and translations of her pioneering writing, influenced by her reformer parents, her work as a gynaecologist and her Marxism. A Chughtai Quartet translated by Tahira Naqvi brings together four Ismat Chughtai novellas from 1937–1971 while Kishwar Naheed’s The Distance of A Shout edited by Asif Farrukhi, consists of Naheed’s powerful contemporary poetry. The year also saw translations of Intizar Hussain from Urdu, Abdul Khan Ghani from Pashto, and Fakhar Zaman from Punjabi. There was a new collection of Zeeshan Sahil’s poetry Light and Heavy Things, edited and translated by Faisal Siddiqui, Christopher Kennedy, and Mi Ditmar. The mystic Sufi poetry of Bulleh Shah is central to Punjabi literature. In the 1980s, the English-language poet Taufiq Rafat was the first in Pakistan to translate eighteenth-century Punjabi oral verse into a modern poetic English idiom. His Bulleh Shah: A Selection has now been reprinted with the addition of a learned introduction by Khaled Ahmed.
The year also saw a rich offering of memoirs. S. M. Shahid’s Song in His Soul tells of his communication with his gifted, but autistic grandchild. Feroze Dada’s Children of the Revolution describes his engagement with an orphanage for children of civil war victims in Myanmar. Ziauddin Sardar’s Mecca: The Sacred City welds the experience of Sardar’s five pilgrimages to that city, with its history dating back to ancient times and it includes an exploration of travel narratives ranging from Richard Burton to Nawab Sikander Jahan, Begum of Bhopal. Comedian Sami Shah never loses his humour in the lively I, Migrant which tells of his migration to Australia following death threats in Karachi. He vividly captures that city where he worked in advertising, television and print journalism and as a popular comedian and witnessed riots and political turmoil, including the first bomb attack on Benazir, which she survived. Syeda Abida Hussain’s lively and readable memoir Power Failure: The Political Odyssey of a Pakistani Woman includes her experience of that terrifying attack: she and Benazir were travelling together. Hussain’s political career spans four decades including her election into The National Assembly and her appointment as Pakistan’s Ambassador to Washington. Born into great privilege, she was encouraged by her parents, as their only child, to defy restrictions of gender, to assume the responsibility of the family estates and follow her father, a prominent Punjab land owner into politics. Her account provides rare insights into Pakistan’s political life and many public figures.
Ayesha Jalal’s The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics offers incisive analysis of Pakistan’s political history from its inception to the present day in the light of Pakistan’s strategic location and the continual power struggle between the political leadership and the military. Jalal points out that, from the very first, Pakistan’s western border, divided from Afghanistan by the Durand Line, was not secure. The territory also lacked the strategic depth against possible incursions from Iran, Afghanistan and the USSR. This was exacerbated by the post-independence conflict with India and the Kashmir dispute. The inevitably large defence expenditure led to a financial drain on the state and a related political instability: an issue which has informed Jalal’s discussion on Pakistan’s historical trajectory and its need for foreign assistance. Jalal discusses the American interest in the region during and after the Cold War and the events of 9/11. She examines the derailment of the political process by the military regimes of Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Zia ul Haq and Pervez Musharraf. She describes, too, the continual assertion of a political will, which led to the ouster of Ayub and Musharraf and indeed the 1971 conflict in East Pakistan.
Among essay collections, Mohsin Hamid’s Discontent and Its Civilizations: Despatches from Lahore, New York and London is a valuable and important selection which provides many insights into the ideas, events and experiences which have shaped Hamid’s critically acclaimed fiction. The book includes writings on literature, politics and family life. His perceptive descriptions of Pakistan and the United States also comment on the complex relationship between the two countries and, indeed, their opinions of each the other. Writing across Boundaries by Javed Amir, the Pakistani American journalist, includes essays ranging from Native American mythology and culture to memories of his family’s home in Harappa. His essays on art and literature include Mohsin Hamid and Tariq Ali and lead up to a discussion on his 2002 novel Modern Soap. Jugnu Mohsin’s entertaining collection Howzzat?! By Im the Dim brings together her popular The Friday Times columns satirizing Imran Khan.
Other notable works of non-fiction include Reema Abbasi’s Hindu Temples: A Call to Conscience which traverses Pakistan, region by region, from its accessible areas to the remote to record the history, architecture and living fabric of Pakistan’s existing Hindu temple and its Hindu minority. Rosemary Raza’s Representing Sindh: Images of the British Encounter portrays Britain’s changing engagement with Sindh across two centuries alongside the development of new technologies in the visual arts. Water colours, etchings, lithography and photography are all covered by this informative book, which ranges from the work of Robert Melville Grindlay, Thomas and Marianne Postans, to Louise Lawrence and Henry Cousens.
The Atlanta Review: Pakistan is a special poetry issue, guest-edited by Waqas Khwaja, that places Pakistani English poetry alongside English translations from other Pakistani languages to reveal the diversity of Pakistan. The Urdu poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Nasir Kazmi, Munir Niazi, Parveen Shakir and Fahmida Riaz, the Punjabi poetry of Naseem Anjum Bhatti, the Pashto poetry of Hasina Gul and the Sindhi poetry Hasan Dars are all represented here among others. Khwaja brings his own poetic skill as an English language poet to his extensive translations from Urdu and Punjabi. His own poem “Primer” – in English – is formatted into three columns of two words per line to create a clever cumulative effect asserting the multi-faith, multi-cultural fabric of Pakistan. Other English poems of interest include Moniza Alvi’s “Tiger” inspired by Lady Curzon’s journals, Taufiq Rafat’s “Mohenjodaro” and Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s five-part “Qasida Sequence for Peshawar”. This excellent issue also includes accomplished poems by Maki Kureishi, Adrian Hussein, Athar Tahir and Illona Yusuf and also introduces promising younger poets such as Soniah Kamal and Bilal Tanweer.
Cara Cilano’s critical work Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan: Spies and Terrorists provides a fascinating exploration of Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil, Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows, H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, as response to popular American spy fiction. She refers to the nineteenth-century concept “propaganda by deed” where dramatic actions and representations are used to surmount ignorance, or public “illiteracy”(20) of the issues involved. She places all four novels within this category: they challenge representations in popular American texts and the sweeping, biased “culture talk” defining “Muslims”, “Pakistanis” and the “Pushtunwali code”. She examines Aslam’s and Shamsie’s portrayal of the American spies David Town and the British-born Harry Burton, respectively: both are men with conflicts and vulnerabilities, very different to the super-confident spy of American fiction. Cilano’s exploration of the novels of H.M. Naqvi and Mohsin Hamid looks at “the alleged terrorist” which contests and complicates American fiction’s clear authority over the other. She says all four novels draw attention to the American spy novel’s “sanctioned” violence which she places within the Roman concept of homo sacer marking out an individual as alien to the norms of society and law.
Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations, edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert, sets out to “participate and intervene in critical debates surrounding representations of Muslims and representations by Muslims” (3) generated by 9/11 and 7/7 bombings. The thought-provoking essays include Tabish Khair’s combination of memoir and global politics, examining the word “Muslim” as an identity marker. Anshuman A. Mondal looks at representations of young Muslims in the British Asian novels of Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam; Lindsey More explores South Asian and Maghrebi women’s fiction including the work of Attia Hosain, Fatima Mernissi, Assia Djebar and Uzma Aslam Khan. My essay looks at the portrayal of the symbiotic Euro-Arab culture of al-Andalus by South Asian writers ranging for poets Imtiaz Dharker and Agha Shahid Ali to novelists Tariq Ali and Salman Rushdie; Caroline Herbert turns her focus to the syncretic culture of India in Shashi Despande’s Small Remedies. In this broad-based collection, the post-independence conflicts of South Asia emerge in essays on Agha Shahid Ali, Salman Rushdie and Mirza Waheed which are informed by the Kashmiri identity of all three; Claire Chambers explores Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim and its portrayal of the dual polarities of secularism and right-wing Islam in Bangladesh. Pakistani texts are extensively explored in Cara Cilano’s examination of Benazir Bhutto’s writings and Aroosa Kanwal’s analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s confrontation with western “Islamophobia” in Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows.
From this it may be surmised that 2014 was very fruitful for Pakistani English fiction, non-fiction and translations and there were individual works of a high quality in poetry and drama, despite the overall paucity in these two genres. The publication of a special poetry issue in the United States and important critical works by major publishers in the diaspora, alongside the growing number of contributions by Pakistan-based academics in literary journals, point to a vital and dynamic academic discourse. The establishment of an International Centre of Creative Writing in English at Kinnaird College Lahore by the poet M. Athar Tahir, who heads the Centre, was particularly significant; it has already started to promote critical discussion and build up a much-needed archive. The Pakistan-based online literary journals Papercuts and Missing Slate continue to develop and grow. Papercuts is now available in a well-presented bi-annual print version; The Missing Slate ran an exciting Poetry World Cup competition. Dawn Books and Authors remains unique as Pakistan’s only weekly book supplement and an important literary platform. Sadly, The Annual of Urdu Studies published its last issue and has shut down.
The year also saw the loss of the well-known English-language columnist Masood Hasan (b.1942) and the Urdu literary critic Waris Alvi (b1928). They will be greatly missed.
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Khan, Sayeed Hasan Across the Seas: Incorrigible Drift 320pp Ushba Publishing (Karachi) Rs1000.
Hasan, Dr. M. Munir Light House: The House of Light: The House of Munir Royal Book Company (Karachi) Rs995 [e-book].
Shah, Sami I, Migrant: A Comedian’s Journey from Karachi to the Outback 288pp Allen & Unwin (Sydney) AUD29.
Shahid, Humaira Awais with Kelly Horan Devotion and Defiance: My Journey in Love Faith and Politics 294pp WW Norton (New York) US$29.95.
Shahid, S.M. Song in His Soul: Hasan – My Music Soulmate 148pp BBCL Publications Rs500.
Yunus, Mohammed China Shakes the World and Is Now Pakistan’s Mainstay: Memoirs of a Diplomat 312pp Institute of Policy Studies (Islamabad) Rs800.
Zafar, Nuzhat Gap between the Two 208pp Mavra Books (Lahore) Rs500.
Anthologies
New Writings from India and Pakistan ed Rakhshanda Jalil 317pp Tranquebar Press (Chennai) Rs395.
I’ll Find My Way: An Anthology of Short Stories ed Maniza Naqvi 468pp Oxford Univ Press Rs450.
Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves Manju Kapur 272pp Hay House India (New Delhi) Rs315 [includes Pakistani novelists Moni Mohsin, Maniza Naqvi, Bina Shah, Bapsi Sidhwa].
A Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry Raza Mir ed and trans 312pp Penguin India (New Delhi) US$ 19.78.
Meet My/Our Friend JJ es Syed Abid Rizvi 368pp Paramount Books (Karachi) Rs 995 [collection of essays and anecdotes about Javed Jabbar].
Criticism
“The Antidote to Pakistan’s Identity Crisis” Bina Shah Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49(3) pp3-10.
“Early Twentieth Century Women’s Accounts” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 17 Aug p3 [on Atiya Fyzee and Maimoona Sultan].
“Exploring Alternativism: South Asian Muslim Women’s English Fiction” Asma Mansoor South Asian Review 35(2) pp47—63
“Festal or Fecal? The Global Literary Programme” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 23 Mar p3.
“A Face in Two Mirrors” Amandeep Sandhu The Hindu 5 July http://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/a-face-in-two-mirrors/article6180412.ece [discusses the translations Angaaray by Sneghal Singhavi and Angarey by Vibha S. Chauhan and Khalid Alvi]
“Ghazal, Sufism and the Birth of Language” Shadab Zeest Hashmi Three Quarks Daily 3 Feb www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/02/ghazal-sufism-and-the-birth-of-a-language.html.
“The Heart, Stomach and Backbone of Pakistan: Lahore in Novels by Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid” Claire Chambers South Asian Diaspora 6[1] pp141-159.
Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations eds Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert 222pp Routledge (Abingdon, New York) US$103.24.
“In the Chamber of Being: Humanizing Iqbal” Syed Nomanul Haq Dawn B&A: (Karachi) 21 Apr pp3-4 [includes refs to Atiya Fyzee].
“Journalists in Fiction and Reality” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 18 May p3.
“The Poetics of Nationalism: Cultural Resistance and Poetry in East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1952-1971” Nazneen Ahmed Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(3) pp252-268
Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan: Spies and “Terrorists” Cara Cilano 144pp Routledge (New York and Abingdon) US$124.
“Postcolonial Lives” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 2 Feb p3.
“Reframing ‘Violence’, Transforming Impressions: Images in Contemporary Pakistani Visual Language Art and English Language Fiction” Madeleine Amelia Clements Wasafiri 77 Spring pp 46-55.
“The Reflection of Swat Crisis in Folk Poetry” Altaf Qadir and Ishtiaq Ahmed Pakistan Perspectives 18(2) July-December [2013] pp103-120.
“Tales of Conflict” Hindu Literary Review Jaya Bhattacharji Rose 3 Aug http://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/stories-on-conflict/article6274928.ece [overview of S. Asian novels on conflict].
“Trends of Pakistani English Fiction from Partition to the 1970’s” Munazza Riaz International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention 3.1 January pp1-5.
“What It Is That Rattles: On the Autonomy of Ideas” Syed Nomanul Haq Dawn B&A: (Karachi) Aug 23 pp3-4 [on Foucault’s deconstruction and lost Euro-Arab narratives].
“To Write of the Conjugal Act: Intimacy and Sexuality in Muslim Women’s Autobiographical Writing in South Asia” Siobhan Lambert Hurley Journal of the History of Sexuality 23(2) May pp155-81 [includes refs to Autobiography of a Rebel Princess by Abida Sultaan].
“We Are Here Because You Were There” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A 13 July p3 [on the travels of Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin].
Ahmad, Rukhsana “Trapped in Two Cultures” Farazeen Amjad Shahid Pakistan Today 22 Mar; “Migrant Tales” Nudrat Kamal Newsline (Karachi) April 64pp; “Review: The Gatekeeper’s Wife by Rukhsana Ahmad” Nadya Chishty Mujahid Dawn B&A 20 April [reviews of The Gatekeeper’s Wife ].
—– “All Writers Draw on Their Past Experience” Aasim Akhtar The News: Literati (Karachi) 5 Oct [interview].
Ahmed, Natasha “E-Love” Nudrat Kamal Newsline (Karachi) November pp73-74 [review of Butterfly Season].
Ali-Gauhar, Feryal “I Have Never Felt the Need to Define Myself” Sabyn Javeri Jillani Newsline (Karachi) Aug pp90-95 [interview].
—– “In Conversation with Aamer Hussein” [see this section,
Akhtar, Ayad “Notes for the Stage: Aditi Sriram interviews Ayad Akhtar” Guernica Magazine 2 Jun the http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/notes-for-the-stage/.
Dharker, Imtiaz “Soundbytes: Poets Are Cuckoos” Peerzada Salman Dawn (Karachi) 21 Dec p3 [interview].
Bhutto, Fatima “The Shadow of the Crescent Moon” Razestha Sethna Dawn B&A (Karachi) 12 Jan pp2 [review of The Shadow of the Crescent Moon].
Farooqi, Musharraf Ali “Sahibqirani: An Ideal of Kingship and Manhood in the Romance of Amir Hamza” Quratulain Shirazi Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 26(2) Summer pp187-201.
—– “The Wicked and the Wronged” Musharraf Ali Farooqi Live Mint.com 14 Jun http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/L4i8rxzvySr4JGiY1u3RDK/The-wicked-and-the-wronged.html [first of a weekly column on the folk tales of South Asia].
Ghose, Zulfikar “The Real Magicians of Latin America” 12 Jan (on novelists ranging from Marquez and Llosa to Machado); “Advise to a Young Poet” 15 Jun; “Truth and the Historical Novel” 20 Jul (includes The Incredible Brazilian Trilogy and The Murder of Aziz Khan); “The Growth of Orwell’s Strange Phenomenon” 31 Apr ( includes Mulk Raj Anand, Ahmed Ali, Attia Hosain and GV Desani];“The Poetry of Shadows and Dreams” 7 Dec (on TS Eliot and St John Perse) Dawn B&A (Karachi) p3 [columns].
Haider, Shazaf Fatima “Oh Karachi, My Karachi: Tips for Writing on My City” Herald (Karachi) April pp 96-97.
Hamid, Mohsin, and Francine Prose “What Are the Draws and Drawbacks for Writers” New York Times (New York) 13 May http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/books/review/what-are-the-draws-and-drawbacks-of-success-for-writers.html?ref=books&_r=1.
Hamid, Omar Shahid “The Prisoner” Owen Bennett Jones Dawn B&A (Karachi) 26 Jan p1 [review of The Prisoner].
Hanif, Mohammed “‘I don’t think I am addressing the empire’: An Interview with Mohammed Hanif” Mushtaq ur Rasool Bilal Postcolonial Text 9(1) pp1-11.
—– “An All-Weather, All-Terrain Fighter: Subaltern Resistance, Survival, and Death in Mohammed Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti” Maryam Mirza The Journal of Commonwealth Literature: Online First 15 July http://jcl.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/07/14/0021989414537287.
Hashmi, Alamgir “The Subcontinent Palimpsest in Alamgir Hashmi’s Poetry” Amra Raza Research Journal of South Asian Studies 29(1) January-July pp137-148.
Husain, Shahrukh “Where Past and Present Meet” Muneeza Shamsie Newsline (Karachi) Aug pp100-101 [review of A Restless Wind].
Hussein, Aamer “We Need to Talk about Stories” 16 Mar; “How Does Your Mind Work” 14 Sept (on bilingualism); “For They Shall Come Home: Language and Belonging” 2 Nov; Dawn B&A (Karachi) p3 [columns].
—– “The Conventional and the Avant-Garde” Nadya Chisty Mujahid Dawn B&A: 30 Mar pp1 (review of The Swan’s Wife: Stories].
—– “A Rebel and Her Cause: The Life and Work of Rashid Jahan by Rakhshanda Jalil Asymptote April http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Criticism&id=73&curr_index=2 [review].
—– “In Conversation with Aamer Hussein” Feryal Ali Gauhar Herald Jun p69-72 [interview of Hussein—see
Hussein, Abdullah “Abdullah Hussein: Living in Exilic Mode” Muhammed Umar Memon Dawn B&A 6 Apr pp3-4.
Imtiaz, Saba “Witty Tales of the City” Umber Khairi The News: Encore (Karachi) 2 Feb; “The Rhythm of Ayesha’s Life” Zainab Altaf The News: Literati (Karachi) 9 Mar; “Where Life and Love Come to Die” Faiza Virani Dawn B&A (Karachi) 23 Mar pp1-2; “Karachi Diaries” Herald (Karachi) March pp111 [reviews of Karachi, You’re Killing Me].
Khwaja, Waqas “Celebrating Literature: In Conversation with Waqas Khwaja” Sana Hussain The Missing Slate Summer http://themissingslate.com/2014/07/07/celebrating-literature-a-conversation-with-waqas-khwaja/view-all/.
—– “Striking a Discordant Note” Newsline January 146-149 [analysis of The Mirror of Beauty by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi)
Mahal, Zeenat “Romancing a Genre” Anum Shahryar Newsline (Karachi) November pp74-74 [review of Haveli].
Mohsin, Moni “The Truth behind the Laughter” Faiza S. Khan Open Lounge Magazine 24 Jul http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/books/the-truth-behind-the-laughter; “Butterfly and the Real World” Adil Mamum Dawn B&A (Karachi) 21 Sept p4; “The Butterfly Effect” Ayesha Akil Newsline (Karachi) Oct 78-79 [reviews of The Return of the Butterfly].
Naqvi, Tahira “Review: Vintage Chughtai: A Selection of Her Best Stories” Muzna Rahman Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(2) pp249-50.
Pasha, Kyla “Poet of the Month: Kyla Pasha” Rosario Freire Missing Slate: October http://themissingslate.com/2014/11/15/poet-of-the-month-kyla-pasha/.
Shah, Bina “Separate Nations under One Roof” Dawn B&A (Karachi) May 18 p4 [review of How to Fight Islamist Terror from a Missionary Position by Tabish Khair].
—– “The Burden of the Past” Madeline Amelia Clements Dawn B&A (Karachi) 30 Nov pp 1-2; “Sindhi History and Culture in Full Display in Bina Shah’s New Novel” Nadya Chisty Mujahid Muftah 29 Oct http://muftah.org/sindhi-history-culture-full-display-bina-shahs-new-novel-season-martyrs-.VSOKc1L9m1t [reviews of A Season of Martyrs].
—– “A Song for Sindh: When a Hindu Woman Meets a Muslim Man” Rafia Zakaria Dawn 14 Nov pp9 [article on A Season of Martyrs].
Shahnawaz, Mumtaz “Affecting Phantasm: The Genesis of Pakistan in The Heart Divided” Humaira Saeed Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(5) [2013].
Suhrawardy, Shahid “The Collected Poems of Shahid Suhrawardy: Kaiser Haq ed and introd” Tabish Khair Wasafiri 79 Autumn pp105-106 [review of The Collected Poems].
Shamsie, Kamila “A Brush with History” Newsline (Karachi) Apr pp65-67 [interview+review of A God in Every Stone]
—– “Of Love and History” Nadya Chisty Mujahid Dawn B&A (Karachi) 23 Feb p1; “Lessons in History” Mohammed Badar Alam Herald (Karachi) April pp93-94; “A God in Every Stone” Jaya Bhattcharji Rose Jaya’s Blog 14 April www.jayabhattacharjirose.com/blog/kamila-shamsie-a-god-in-every-stone; Truths Etched in Stone” Amandeep Sandhu Tehelka.com 19 Apr http://www.tehelka.com/truths-etched-in-stone [reviews of A God in Every Stone].
—– “Profile: Kamila Shamsie “The More You Write the More You Make Things Harder for Yourself’” Razestha Sethna Dawn B&A (Karachi) 6 Apr pp1-2.
—–“Tradition and Modernity in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron” Quratul Ain Shirazi International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 1(2) pp23-37.
—– “Where’s the Rage? Kamila Shamsie in Conversation with Pankaj Mishra” Guernica Magazine 3 Feb http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/wheres-the-rage/.
Sheikh, Moazzam “Moazzam Sheikh’s Love Affair with the Short Story” Anu Kumar Feb 7 http://kitaab.org/2014/02/02/moazzam-sheikhs-love-affair-with-the-short-story; Saeedur Rahman “Cafe Le Whore: A Strange Story Told” The News: Literati (Karachi) 23 Mar [review of Cafe Le Whore].
Tanweer, Bilal “Review of The Scatter Here Is Too Great” Claire Chambers Dawn B&A (Karachi) 19 Jan pp1-2; “The World within the City” Nudrat Kamal Newsline (Karachi) Feb pp62-63 [reviews].
—– “I Am a Bit of a Flirt When It Comes to Books” The Friday Times (Lahore) 26 Sept-2 Oct pp27 [interview].
Non-fiction
Abbas, Hassan The Taliban Revival 296pp Yale Univ Press (New Haven) US$30.
Abbasi, Reema Hindu Temples in Pakistan: A Call to Conscience Photographs by Madiha Aijaz 268pp Nyogi Publishers Rs2500.
Ahmar, Moonis Conflict Management and Vision for Secular Pakistan 212pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs650
Ahmad, Salman Albert Camus and Sadequain (Volume 1) 132pp CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform US$33.25 [2012].
Ahmed, Lt Col (Retd) Habib The Battle of Hussainiwala and Qaiser-I-Hind the 1971 War 348pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1995.
Ahmed, Dr. Mutahir Pak Afghan Security Dilemma, Imperfect Past and Uncertain Future 288 pp Tarikh Publications (Lahore).
Ahmed, Syed Jaffer ed Pakistan: Dimensions of History 393pp Pakistan Study Centre (University of Karachi).
Ali, Mehrunissa Facets of Jinnah: Personality and Leadership 100pp Pakistan Study Centre (University of Karachi).
Ali, Mubarak Learning from History 302pp Fiction House (Lahore) Rs700.
—– The Power of History 272pp Fiction House (Lahore) Rs700.
Anand, Tanya The Game Changer: A Brief History of Television in Pakistan 135pp Ushba Publishing (Karachi) Rs700
Anjum, Zafar Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician 325pp Random House India (New Delhi) Rs978.
Ansari, Khizar Humayun The Emergence of Socialist Thought among North Indian Muslims 1917-1947 504pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1295.
Al-Azm, Sadik J. Al-Azm Is Islam Secularizible? Challenging Political and Religious Taboos 245pp Vanguard (Lahore) Rs995.
—– Islam: Submission and Disobedience 191pp Vanguard (Lahore) Rs995.
—– On Fundamentalisms 191pp Vanguard (Lahore) Rs995.
Awan, Dr. Tariq Mahmood Rehabilitation of Muslim Prisoners: An Empirical Case Study 280pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs1200.
Dar, Farooq Ahmad Jinnah’s Pakistan Formation and Challenges of a State 460pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs995.
Hamid, Mohsin Discontent and Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London [See
Hamid, Major General (R) Ali Forged in the Furnace of Battle: War History of the 26th Cavalry Chamb Operation 1971 Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs3000.
Hamidullah, Muhammad and Afzal Iqbal The Emergence of Islam: Lectures on the Development of Islamic World-View, Intellectual Tradition and Polity: 352pp International Islamic University.
Hasan, Shaikh Khurshid Religious Architecture of Gandhara-Pakistan: Buddhist Stupas and Monasteries 290pp National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research (Islamabad) US$95 [2013].
Hashmi, Moniza Who Am I? 224pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs1573 [Interviews].
Iqbal, Major General Shaukat The New Great Game and Security Challenges for Pakistan 281pp Paramount (Karachi) Rs495.
Jafri, Urooj ed The Life and Times of ABS Jafri Jumhoori Publications (Lahore) Rs400 [includes reminiscences by family and writers such as Kishwar Naheed. S.M. Shahid and I.A. Rehman].
Jalal, Ayesha The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics Ayesha Jalal 435pp Harvard University Press Rs995.
Jalil, Rakhshanda A Rebel and Her Cause; the Life and Work of Rashid Jahan [Biography+translation, see
Jamaluddin, Syed Leaving the Left Behind 264pp Pakistan Study Centre (Karachi) Rs800 [history of communism].
Kalhoro, Zulfiqar Ali ed Perspectives on the Art and Architecture of Sindh 280pp Endowment Fund Trust (Karachi) Rs1800.
Khalid, Haroon White Trail: A Journey into the Heart of Pakistan’s Minorities 330pp Westland (Chennai) Rs895.
Khan, Farakh A. Murree During the Raj: A British Town in the Hills 504pp Le Topical (Lahore) Rs1595.
Khan, Israr Ullah The Life & Adventures of K.B. Risaldar Shahzad Mir O.B.I (1863-1924) Probyn’s Horse 442pp Israr Publishers (Nowshera Cantt) US$20 [2013].
Kamran, Mujahid The Inspiring Life of Abdus Salam xi+320 Univ of Punjab (Lahore) Rs700.
Kelaney, Mohsen Balochistan Architecture, Craft, and Religious Symbolism 368pp Oxford University Press (Karachi) Rs3000.
Memon, Naseer Pakistan in a Labyrinth 152pp Center for Peace & Civil Society (Hyderabad) Rs300 [Essays].
Mustafa, Danish, Katherine Brown, and Matthew Tillotson “Antipode to Terror: Spaces of Performative Politics” Antipode 45(5) pp1100-1127 [2013].
Nanjee, Iqbal H. The 19th Century Indian Feudatory State Jammu & Kashmir the Postage Stamps and Postal History 1866-1877 (Volume-I) 266pp Pakistan Post Foundation Press (Karachi).
Nasir, Dr. A.S. The Phenomenon of Poverty and Bad Governance 181pp Royal Book Company (Karachi) Rs695.
Niaz, Ilhan Old World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance 696pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1695.
Sardar, Ziauddin Mecca: The Sacred City 448pp Bloomsbury (London) £25.
Qureshi, M. Naeem Ottoman Turkey, Attaturk and Muslim South Asia: Perceptives, Perceptions and Responses 407pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1650.
Samiuddin, Osman The Unquiet Ones: A History of Pakistani Cricket 510pp HarperSport (New Delhi).
Shah, Aqil The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan 416pp Harvard Univ Press (Cambridge, Mass) US$35.
Shahzad, Ghafar From Sufi Thinking to Sufi Shrine Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs695.
Siddique, Osama Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: An Alien Justice 485pp Cambridge University Press (Cambridge) £70 [2013]
Ullah, Haroon K. Vying for Allah’s Vote: Understanding Islamic Parties, Political Violence and Extremism in Pakistan 272pp Georgetown Univ Press (Washington DC) US$26.95 [2013].
Yusuf, Moeed ed Insurgency and Counter Insurgency in South Asia through a Peacebuilding Lens 328pp United States Institute for Peace (Washington DC) Rs1076.
—– ed Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Challenge 272pp Georgetown Univ Press (Washington DC) US$27/95
Zahid, Farhan The Roots of Islamic Activism in South Asia 100pp Narrative Books (Islamabad) US$15.
Journals
Annual of Urdu Studies 29 ed Muhammed Umar Memon University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Languages and Cultures of South Asia, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison W1 53706 [last issue].
The Critical Muslim eds Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin Kassab The Muslim Institute & C. Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd, 41 Great Russell Street, London WC1 PL subs UK £50; Europe £65; Rest of the World £75.
Pakistan Perspectives; Bi-annual Research Journal Acting Director and Publisher, Dr. Jaffer Ahmed, Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi, P.O. Box 8450 Karachi 725270 subs individual single Rs250, US$30; Special Issue Rs300, US$40; annual Rs500; US$60; airmail charges (for two issues) US$15; email
Papercuts ed Afia Aslam PO Box 7815, Karachi 54000
Special Issues
Atlanta Review: Pakistan Issue guest ed Waqas Khwaja ed and publisher Dan Veach POBox 8248 Atlanta GA 31106
Internet Sites
Annual of Urdu Studies <www.urdustudies.com> [with an internet archive in PDF].
Desi Writers Lounge <http://www.desiwriterslounge.net/papercuts> [online literary journal and online writers’ workshop].
Internet Archive <www.archive.org> [includes past issues of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies and other Pakistani-related items].
The Missing Slate: Art and Literary Journal <www.themissingslate.com> [online journal of art and literature].
Three Quarks Daily <http://www.3quarksdaily.com> [includes creative work and literary essays].
*Dawn B&A: Books and Authors Supplement