Sunday, 15 September 2013

COVER STORY:Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State (Literary Criticism) By Cara Cilano Routledge, US ISBN 978415682763

Imagining Pakistan in fiction Contemporary

Anglo-American critics’ recent attempts to analyse the perspectives of Pakistan offered by its contemporary fiction authors in English — my own included — have tended to focus on exploring how, in Amit Chaudhuri’s words: “Pakistani writers are interestingly poised: implicated in both the unfolding and the unravelling of our age”. That is, the age of capitalist meltdown, supposed civilisational clash and the global

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