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Journal articles on the topic "Pakistan, fiction"

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Ijaz, Fatima, Fazal Rabi, and Uzma . "AN EXPLORATION OF DISCOURSE STYLES IN PAKISTANI ENGLISH FICTIONS." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 04, no. 04 (December 31, 2022): 357–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v4i04.819.

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The current study explores emergent discourse styles in English-language Pakistani fiction using multiple levels of analysis. The modern discourse styles in Pakistani English-language fiction have been explored using the "Corpus Stylistics" methodology and computational tools. In the past, the quantitative research on Pakistani fiction in English as a whole has hardly ever examined the entire collection of fundamental language elements. The current study is ground-breaking in that it has assembled a sizable corpus of Pakistani fiction in English for a specific goal based on a sizable collection of novels and short tales. Applying statistical factor analysis, the whole collection of essential lexico-grammatical elements presents in fictionized writing in Pakistan has been taken into consideration. The current research introduces innovative discourse styles and labels them as: "Expression of Thought vs. Descriptive Discourse Production," "Context-oriented Discourse," "Concrete Action Discourse vs. Abstract Exposition," and "Narrative vs. Dialogic Discourse." it does this by marking information from the large substantial corpus of English-language Pakistani fiction. Keywords: English and fiction, English language, literacy Pakistan, education system.

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Ilyas, Safa. "Psychological Effects of Sadaat Hasan Manto’s Fiction on Youth of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan." Media and Communication Review 1, no. 2 (December 26, 2021): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/mcr.12.06.

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This study aims to look at the idea that Manto straightforwardly expounded on man and woman’s intimate relationships. Reading fiction, dramatizations and books are similarly impacted personalities of the readers as visual screenplays, Manto's fiction engravings in all accessible mediums of print and electronic although quotes from his fictions likewise broadly tune in and share in online communities. This persistence of his work accessibility and appreciation touched the researcher to deal with his fiction to check its psychological effects on the youth of Lahore. This inquiry is strengthened by the reader-response theory to identify the youth perception and understandings about his fictions and Uses and Gratification for the resolutions and intentions of youth to escalate his work. The quantitative survey method utilized, and data collected with Purposive sampling, 500 respondents were chosen, the findings of the study showed, that Manto's fictions make anxiety and eroticism in youth along with this his fictions create mindfulness about social taboo`s and social associations.

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Ilyas, Safa. "Psychological Effects of Sadaat Hasan Manto’s Fiction on Youth of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan." Media and Communication Review 1, no. 2 (December 26, 2021): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/mcr.12.06.

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This study aims to look at the idea that Manto straightforwardly expounded on man and woman’s intimate relationships. Reading fiction, dramatizations and books are similarly impacted personalities of the readers as visual screenplays, Manto's fiction engravings in all accessible mediums of print and electronic although quotes from his fictions likewise broadly tune in and share in online communities. This persistence of his work accessibility and appreciation touched the researcher to deal with his fiction to check its psychological effects on the youth of Lahore. This inquiry is strengthened by the reader-response theory to identify the youth perception and understandings about his fictions and Uses and Gratification for the resolutions and intentions of youth to escalate his work. The quantitative survey method utilized, and data collected with Purposive sampling, 500 respondents were chosen, the findings of the study showed, that Manto's fictions make anxiety and eroticism in youth along with this his fictions create mindfulness about social taboo`s and social associations.

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Uzma Munir and Memoona Asif. "Racism and Alienation in Postcolonial Context: A Study of Tariq Rehman’s Short Story “BINGO”." ANNALS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PERSPECTIVE 5, no. 1 (March 29, 2024): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/assap.v5i1.347.

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Referring to the phenomenon of racism and alienation in Pakistani literature, it is first advantageous to examine Pakistan’s Postcolonial democracy. Pakistan was colonized under British rule for 90 years and got its independent recognition in 1947. In 1971, the political and social conflicts fueled the armed forces to start a third war between India and Pakistan. Consequently, East Pakistan (i.e., present Bangladesh) formally separated from West Pakistan. This paper focuses on two major dimensions of postcolonialism i.e., Racism and Alienation, in Tariq Rehman’s short fiction Bingo. Postcolonialism is used as a theoretical framework to postulate the formation and fragmentation of East and West Pakistani nations in 1971. The conventional treatment of colonial hegemony by West Pakistan to East Pakistan is analyzed through the characters of Tajassur and Safeer. The outcome of the hegemonic scenario gives birth to some toxic substances of civil war such as brutality, mass destruction, deprivation, hatred, and family loss, which are couched through the diction and style opted by Tariq Rehman. This study is exclusive in a way that it elucidates the social and emotional estrangement of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) towards a minority (i.e., Bengalis) before the independence of Bangladesh. This work further examines the text to mediate all the scenarios of West Pakistan’s power shift from being under British raj to rule over Bengalis. To interpret the orientation and worthiness of data; thematic analysis is used as a more flexible yet influential tool; to discuss the hegemonic foundation after partition in Pakistan

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Mehmood, Sadaf. "Voicing The Silences: Women In Contemporary Pakistani Fiction In English." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 18, no. 1 (March 8, 2019): 113–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v18i1.28.

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Indigenous women of Pakistan have long been struggling with the patriarchal norms. Categorization of their existence in the conventional oppressions connotes diversified victimization. Grappling with such assorted repressions and articulating the subsequent silences, women writers of Pakistan and the social activists are incessantly engaged to empower women from societal peripheries. The selected fiction exposes how the indigenous woman is controlled and exploited on the name of religio-cultural rhetoric. The present article outlines the historical developments in changing the social positioning of women after independence by highlighting the urgency of raising women consciousness in the academic sphere to form an alliance for collective identity. This article evaluates Ice Candy Man (1988), My Feudal Lord (1994) and Trespassing (2003) to explore the changing images of indigenous Pakistani women after partition. It aims to highlight the struggle and resistance of female characters against the patriarchal propriety of Pakistani society. The study is significant to highlight the struggles of women writers to articulate the silences of assorted exploitation buried under the hegemony of socio-historical discourses. The study concludes that through female characterization the women writers organize specific academic movement of awakening that provides situational analysis to relate with the turbulences of the fictional world to correspond the real challenges.

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Khan, Zarine. "National identities in Pakistan: the 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction." Contemporary South Asia 21, no. 3 (September 2013): 352–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2013.827441.

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Sen, Madhurima. "(Re)Constructing the Bengali: Propaganda and Resistance in Immediate Post-1971 Pakistani Fiction." Southeast Asian Review of English 60, no. 1 (July 16, 2023): 103–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol60no1.7.

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During the war of 1971 and for a considerable amount of time afterward, manipulation of media reports and military propaganda in Pakistan contributed to cultural stereotypes of Bengalis as ‘others’. This paper analyses two immediate Pakistani fictional responses to the war published in 1973: “Bingo” by Tariq Rahman and “Hearth and Home” by Parveen Sarwar. It considers the relationship between literature as a medium and the rigid structure of religious nationalist loyalties and state propaganda, probing the dynamics between imaginative fiction and the top-down approach of statist historiography. It draws attention to the heterogeneity of literary strategies employed by authors and their divergent engagements with formulaic images of the Bengali ‘other’, which in turn shape the construction of national identity in the narratives. Along with focusing on the role of literature in ‘shattering the silence’, it aims to foreground the role played by fiction in maintaining stereotypical, archetypal, and antagonistic inter-ethnic relations.

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Khan Chaudhry, Mahmood Ali. "Note Child Labour - Facts and Fiction." LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 2, no. 2 (July 1, 1997): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.35536/lje.1997.v2.i2.a8.

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Child labour exists throughout the third world including Pakistan. For some unknown reason, the Western Press has chosen to single out Pakistan to decry the system. The May 1997 issue of the Readers’ Digest carried a particularly vicious article entitled `No Life for a Child’ giving harrowing tales of beatings and other forms of coercion to make little children in Pakistan to work in factories. Advantage is taken of the fact that there has been no census in the country for two decades to bloat the figures of child labour. One estimate going the rounds is 15 million. But the more popular figure is 8 million which both UNICEF and SAARC have adopted. ILO produced a figure of 6.3 million till, in 1996 it sponsored a survey which turned up the figure of 3.3 million. In a country with a population of 132 million, every man, woman and child of which is under a debt burden of about Rs 13,021 per annum the figure of 3.3 million labouring children should not take anyone by surprise. Not that this is any justification for child labour.

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Asim Karim. "Pakistani Fiction in English: Exploring Decolonial Epistemological Prospects and Challenges in English Classroom Practices in Pakistan." Journal of Contemporary Poetics 6, no. 2 (August 8, 2023): 91–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.54487/jcp.v6i2.2890.

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This research focuses on Pakistani Fiction in English as a useful tool for language learners to improve their language skills, understanding of culture, and intercultural competence. The discussion shows the vast cultural diversity and linguistic ingenuity evident in Pakistani anglophone texts, enabling learners to participate with authentic language use and get a deeper understanding of Pakistani society. This paper also examines the practical implications of introducing these texts into language classes, highlighting the need for context-based activities, critical thinking exercises, and discussions to promote language competency and cultural sensitivity. Overall, this study reveals that Pakistani anglophone texts offer a significant and underutilised resource for language learners mainly at the undergraduate levels, increasing linguistic competence, cultural appreciation, and cross-cultural communication skills. By combining these materials into the language curriculum, educators can give learners a more comprehensive and interesting language learning experience that represents the rich linguistic and cultural terrain of Pakistan. This paper also assesses the obstacles present in using Pakistani writings in English for language learning objectives. It concludes that the measure will go a long way in decolonising the English language curriculum in Pakistan while empowering learners not only linguistically but also strengthening their cultural identity. By embracing a decolonial perspective, educators may create a more inclusive, relevant, and empowering learning environment that prepares students to navigate a globalised world while honouring their local heritage. Keywords: English language teaching, teaching literature for English language learning, teaching Pakistani anglophone fiction, decolonial epistemology, decolonisation of English language instruction, content-based instruction.

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Arooj, Saba, Kiran Batool, and Tabeer Fatima. "Unveiling Masculinity: Exploring Metaphorical Representations of Men in Pakistani Fiction through Mohsin Hamid's "Moth Smoke"." Journal of Languages, Culture and Civilization 5, no. 2 (June 30, 2023): 115–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.47067/jlcc.v5i2.176.

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The objective of this study is to conduct a thorough examination of the conceptual metaphors used to depict men in Pakistani society, with the aim of revealing the dominant conceptualization of male gender in Pakistan. The study is based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) as its theoretical framework, and employs content analysis as the research methodology. The novel "Moth Smoke" by Mohsin Hamid has been chosen as the primary source due to its Pakistani setting, which provides a wealth of pertinent information. The findings reveal that the male gender is predominantly associated with the responsibility of earning and providing financial support for the entire family. Furthermore, men are portrayed as enjoying autonomy, allowing them to prioritize their own needs and desires. The outcomes of this study hold significant potential for future researchers investigating the role of conceptual metaphors in shaping gender conceptualization within societies, as well as their significance in literature as a medium for representing gender dynamics. By delving into the metaphoric representations of men in Pakistani fiction, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the cultural construction of masculinity in Pakistan and highlights the nuanced ways in which gender roles are portrayed and perceived in the literary realm.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Pakistan, fiction"

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Mehta, Suhaan Kiran. "Cosmopolitanism, Fundamentalism, and Empire: 9/11 Fiction and Film from Pakistan and the Pakistani Diaspora." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376953595.

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Saleem, Ali Usman. "Paracolonialism : a case of post-1988 Anglophone Pakistani fiction." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/576353.

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Embedded in the socio-political milieu of the country Anglophone Pakistani fiction provides a critical perspective on some of the important contemporary issues facing the country like feminism, class struggle, misuse of religious discourse, sectarianism, terrorism and the fragmentation of the Pakistani society. By contextualizing the works of four Pakistani fiction writers, Sara Suleri, Kamila Shamsie, Mohsin Hamid and Mohammed Hanif, in the theoretical paradigms of modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, this research identifies salient facets and characteristics of Pakistani Anglophone fiction produced during the last three decades. This thesis argues that Pakistani Anglophone fiction is Janus-faced in nature. On the one hand it specifically deconstructs various indigenous issues which are destabilizing Pakistani society and politics, while on the other hand it challenges the discursive construction of Pakistan as a terrorist country through international discourse. By doing so, these writers not only adopt the role of political commentators and interveners but also create a counter-narrative to Western hegemonic discourse and represent a case for a liberal and democratic Pakistan. Moreover the textual analysis of this fiction indicates a shift from traditional postcolonial literature. Instead of contextualizing their work in the colonial experience of the British Raj or its aftermath, these writers dissociate themselves from it and use this dissociation as a narrative strategy to hold the political and military leadership accountable for the socio-political chaos in Pakistan. The thesis argues that this characteristic of Anglophone Pakistani fiction indicates the emergence of a new phase, ‘Paracolonialism’ or ‘Paracolonial fiction’ which rejects the influence of colonialism on the socio-economic and political crisis of Third World countries and deconstructs various factors which led to their post-independence unstable economy and social fragmentation.

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Bilkha, Shubika. "Stories of the cities by the sea : representing society through fiction from Bombay and Karachi /." Connect to online version, 2006. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2006/134.pdf.

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Shuja, Aneela. "Under the Pomegranate Tree." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1784.

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Mina is a young girl in a rural village called Tobay in Pakistan when her only friend Dhaaga, a family servant around her age, suddenly leaves. After a betrayal by her father’s second, much younger wife, Mina starts her long journey. She becomes a prostitute in Heera Mandi, the famed red light district of Lahore, and unexpectedly finds friends in a nearby transvestite brothel. Mina suddenly ends up with her life in danger when she tries to take revenge on the man who ruined Dhaaga’s life. She gets help from a human rights lawyer and escapes to safety in America with a New Orleans cabbie, who she met during her Heera Mandi days. She is eventually forced to come back to Pakistan and finally returns to her home in Tobay, where she finds that everything has changed as much as she has. The novel is set in 1980s Pakistan, when the country faced increasing religious pressure from its military government, and girls like Mina got caught up in stricter standards of honor. It is a coming-of-age novel that takes the protagonist around the world before she is able to finally face her djinns and demons.

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Syed, Ghazal. "Perceptions of identity, rights and duties : insights from students' reading of fiction at a university in Pakistan." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16930/.

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This project investigates university students’ perceptions of identity, rights and duties in relation to four novels they study as part of their curriculum. The context of the study is an English department at a public-sector university in Sindh, Pakistan. The main research question that guides this study is, What perceptions of identity, rights and duties are held by a sample of undergraduate students in Pakistan in the context of their study of fiction? Semi-structured interviews and classrooms observations were used as the research instruments. Rosenblatt’s (1938/1970, 1978/1994) reader-response framework and Cogan’s (1998) model of citizenship are used as theoretical frameworks guiding this study. Following feasibility and pilot studies, data for the main study was supplied by twenty-six participants through interviews, comprising three members of curriculum designing board, three teachers of fiction and twenty students of final year undergraduate class. Background and stimulus data was provided by two classroom observations. The key arguments based on findings of this study are that participants’ perceptions of identity, rights and duties included types and examples of citizenship themes discussed by Cogan as well as the themes particularly relevant to the participants’ context such as religion and caste issues. Furthermore, the participants discussed and connected to identity, rights and duties in the novels that were geographically, socially and temporally close in terms of their context which was as expected in light of Rosenblatt’s framework. I make recommendations for further research to explore the role of context in learners’ citizenship interpretations of novels along with other recommendations for research and professional practice.

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Kirk, Jacqueline E. "Impossible fictions? : reflexivity as methodology for studying women teachers' lives in development contexts." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84518.

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This thesis interweaves issues of feminist methodology with theories, policies and practices of gender and development, around a central focus on women teachers' lives. It addresses the position of women teachers in relation to theories and practices of gender, education and development. It examines appropriate research methodology for working with, understanding and interpreting the lives of women teachers in Karachi, Pakistan. Drawing on the multiple traditions of feminist narrative inquiry in the field of education, and on the methods and forms emerging in alternative forms of ethnographic practice, the study is a situated one. Lived experiences are foregrounded, and time, place, context made explicit. Interview, discussion group and fieldnote data are collected whilst working with women teachers in Karachi, Pakistan. After an unexpected departure after September 11, 2001, additional questionnaire data are collected from a distance.
The thesis is a study researching women teachers' lives but also a critical reflection on the dominant development practices in which research takes place. As text it constitutes a form of feminist practice in and of itself. It analyzes the lived, and embodied experience of teaching, learning and researching, and rewrites this into the predominantly male-dominated literature and theory of education in development.
In the traditions of feminist inquiry, the study is also oriented towards change for women. Given the stated importance of gender equity, and especially the attention to girls' education of the international development community, the study has important implications for the ways that development planners think about women teachers, and design programs and policies for them. Shifting attention from natural nurturing and caring abilities of women teachers, to subjective issues of relational power dynamics, and to the individual and collective positionings of women's bodies within institutions and organizations, this study places women's lived experience as central to theories of pedagogy, curriculum, educational leadership, and to research in gender, education and development.

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Zahoor, Abubaker. "Desires & Debacles." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1607264387584207.

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Ahmed, Kiran Nazir. "'But you haven't told me about yourself' : women's digests in Pakistan as an affective space of belonging." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24340.

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This report demonstrates how encounters between readers, writers and editors of a low-brow genre of Urdu fiction, create an affective space of belonging. This genre is published in commercial monthly magazines (commonly known as women’s digests) that contain narratives of feminine domesticity, primarily written by and for women, in Pakistan. Drawing on ethnographic work (archival and interviews) with authors, readers and editors of two monthlies, this study traces the contours of digest community as an affective space of belonging that provides a ‘complex of confirmation and consolation’ on how to be a woman in Pakistan’s changing social milieu. It further argues that recent proliferation of cell phones has led to a new sensibility in this community that has its own rhythm of sound. Previously readers would communicate through published letters mediated by editors. However, now there is direct contact between these two groups, through cell phones. Digest narratives are now also being drawn from experiences readers share with authors over cell phone conversations. This sharing is not factual as such, but rather an affective exchange of feelings about facts. Thus, these conversations can be seen as a shared emotional experience where the lack of visual cues regarding social class, age and ethnicity (since readers and writers rarely meet each other) leads to voices becoming just that – voices that share life stories and experiences. There is thus a transient coming together of women who are mostly unrelated by kinship or ethnicity; and a sociality is formed between strangers with its own sensory feel of rhythm and sound, through the medium of the cell phone. This work contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship on how media and technology is a negotiation between material properties of technologies being introduced and the particular effects in forming new affects and sensibilities; and how dominant representations of Muslim women as a singular and stable category of analysis, can be spoken back to, by highlighting their myriad voices and understanding them beyond the usual tropes of victimhood and emancipation.
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Books on the topic "Pakistan, fiction"

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Storm, P. W. Deployment: Pakistan. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

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Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan. New Delhi: Time Books International, 1989.

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Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan. Lahore: International S. S., 2001.

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Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan. Delhi: Ravi Dayal, 1988.

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Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan. New Delhi: Time Books International, 1989.

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Bilal, Mushtaq. Writing Pakistan: Conversations on identity, nationhood and fiction. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2016.

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Hanif, Mohammed. A case of exploding mangoes. New Delhi: Random House India, 2008.

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Mahmud, Sayyid Fayyaz. Folk romances of Pakistan. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 1995.

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Storm, P. W. Force 5 recon: Deployment, Pakistan. New York: Avon Books, 2003.

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Raffier, Joël. Partition: Pakistan, le pays des déchirures. Paris: Harmattan, 2013.

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Book chapters on the topic "Pakistan, fiction"

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Kanwal, Aroosa. "Coda: Re-imagining Pakistan." In Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction, 198–200. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478443_6.

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Shamsie, Muneeza. "The encounter with modernity in the rural and tribal areas of Pakistan in Pakistani English fiction." In Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Pakistan, 85–98. New York : Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315696706-6.

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Verkaaik, Oskar. "Coming of Age in the Secular Republic of Fiction." In The Nation Form in the Global Age, 303–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85580-2_12.

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AbstractCriticizing the concept of culture as bounded, static and intrinsically connected to the nation, Peter van der Veer emphasized global connections and showed how global notions like the nation or religion are translated locally. This emphasis on global connections took him from India, his first ethnographic region, back to Europe—Britain and the Netherlands in particular—before he moved on to work on China. This ‘enigma of return’ perspective stirred up received ideas within the academic milieus in these countries. My aim in this chapter is to try and do something similar by returning to questions about religion, the secular and the nation after working on similar issues in Pakistan. I do this by rereading novels from the 1960s and 1970s that not only expressed changing ways of thinking and living, but also took these ideas further. I argue that the Dutch literary scene reflects the secular culture of the post-war generation, which still informs political debates about the place of religion, such as Islam, in the nation in the contemporary Netherlands. I also argue that contemporary secular culture is artistically and creatively barren in comparison to what it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Santesso, Esra Mirze. "Pakistani fiction and human rights." In The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing, 127–37. London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. |: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315180618-12.

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Sadaf, Shazia. "Islam in Pakistani Fantasy Fiction." In Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary, 10–44. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003256427-2.

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Kanwal, Aroosa. "Introduction." In Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction, 1–17. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478443_1.

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Kanwal, Aroosa. "How the World Changed: Narratives of Nationhood and Displaced Muslim Identities." In Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction, 18–72. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478443_2.

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Kanwal, Aroosa. "Responding to 9/11: Contextualising the Subcontinent and Beyond." In Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction, 73–111. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478443_3.

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Kanwal, Aroosa. "Re-imagining Home Spaces: Pre- and Post-9/11 Constructions of Home and Pakistani Muslim Identity." In Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction, 112–56. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478443_4.

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Kanwal, Aroosa. "Global Ummah: Negotiating Transnational Muslim Identities." In Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction, 157–97. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478443_5.

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Conference papers on the topic "Pakistan, fiction"

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Shahraz, Qaisra. "A Sense of Belonging in a Diverse Britain: The Migrant Experience of British Pakistanis in Britain, as Explored Through the Literary Work of Qaisra Sahraz’s Novel, Revolt, and Short Fiction, A Pair of Jeans, Escape, and Train to Krakow." In Sense of Belonging in a Diverse Britain. Dialogue Society, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.55207/opjd1850.

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