Author: Muneeza Shamsie
Publisher: Kali/Women Unlimited
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 298
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188965235
Description
Despite individual success, English language writing and Pakistani women, as a body of work, is not widely known. The intention of this anthology is to beak that silence and explore the fiction and creative prose of Pakistani women who, by choosing English as their creative medium, write from the extreme edges of both English and Pakistani literature. Their work challenges the stereotypes imposed on them, as women and as writers, by the patriarchal culture of countries both in the diaspora and in Pakistan.
This stunning collection of stories by 24 of the most creative women writers in Pakistan today is remarkable for the range and accomplishment of their writing. Fable, faction, prose-poetry, memoir as social history, autobiography as political commentary; familiar genres are coaxed into new forms, conventional content is upended to excavate experience and memory.
A rich and uncommon literary feast, to savour and delight in.
Contents
DEDICATION
THANKS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MUNEEZA SHAMSIE
Introduction
SHAHRUKH HUSAIN
Rubies for a Dog: a fable
UZMA ASLAM KHAN
Look, But with Love
FERYAL ALI GAUHAR
Kucha Miran Shah
FAHMIDA RIAZ
The Daughters of Aai
KAMILA SHAMSIE
Surface of Glass
HUMERA AFRIDI
The Prince of Hubris
ROSHNI RUSTOMJI
Existing at the Centre, Watching from the Edges: Mandalas
SORAYYA KHAN
Staying
BAPSI SIDHWA
The Arsonist
MUNEEZA SHAMSIE
Jungle Jim
RUKHSANA AHMAD
Meeting the Sphinx
SARA SULERI GOODYEAR
Boys Will Be Boys
SONIAH KAMAL
Runaway Truck Ramp
QAISRA SHAHRAZ
A Pair of Jeans
BINA SHAH
The Optimist
TAHIRA NAQVI
A for Exchange
HIMA RAZA
Variations: A Story in Voices
FAWZIA AFZAL KHAN
Bloody Monday
MANIZA NAQVI
Impossible Shade of Home Brew
TALAT ABBASI
Mirage
SEHBA SARWAR
Black Wings
AAMINA AHMAD
Scar
SABYNJAVERI-JILLANI
And then the World Changed
NAYYARA RAHMAN
Clay Fissures
CONTRIBUTOR