Introduction / Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam -- Reimagining history: the legacy of war and partition. "All these angularities": spatialising non-Muslim Pakistani identities / Cara Cilano -- 1971: reassessing a forgotten national narrative / Muneeza Shamsie -- History, borders and identity: dealing with silenced memories of 1971 / Daniela Vitolo -- 9/11 and beyond: contexts, forms and perspectives. Global Pakistan in the wake of 9/11 / Ulka Anjaria -- Pakistani inoutsiders and the dynamics of post-9/11 dissociation in Pakistani fiction / Claudia Nordinger -- The nuclear novel in Pakistan / Michaela M. Henry -- Uses of humour in post-9/11 Pakistani anglophone fiction: H.M Naqvi's Home boy and Mohammed Hanif's A case of exploding mangoes / Ambreen Hai -- Comic affiliations/comic subversions: the use of humour in contemporary British Pakistani fiction / Sarah Ilott -- Resistance and redefinition: theatre of the Pakistani diaspora in the UK and the US / Suhaan Mehta -- Historiographic metafiction and renarrating history / Nisreen Yousef -- The dialectics of human rights: politics, positionality, controversies. Pakistani fiction and human rights / Esra Mirze Santesso -- Divergent discourses: human rights and contemporary Pakistani anglophone literature / Shazia Sadaf -- The taming of the tribal within Pakistani narratives of progress, conflict and romance / Uzma Abid Ansari -- Phoenix rising: the West's use (and misuse) of Anglophone memoirs of Pakistani women / Colleen Lutz Clemens -- Writing back and/as activism: refiguring victimhood and remapping the shooting of Malala Yousafzai / Rachel Fox -- Identities in question: shifting perspectives on gender. Doing history right: challenging masculinist postcolonialism in Pakistani anglophone literature / Fawzia Afzal-Khan -- Love, sex, and desire vs Islam in British Muslim literature / Kavita Bhanot -- Transgressive desire, everyday life and and the production of "modernity" in Pakistani anglophone fiction / Mosarrap Hossain Khan -- Spaces of female subjectivity: identity, difference, agency. Agency, gender, nationalism and the romantic imaginary in Pakistan / Abu-Bakar Ali -- Conjugal homes: marriage culture in contemporary novels of the Pakistani diaspora / Rahul K. Gairola and Elham Fatma -- British-Pakistani female playwrights: feminist perspectives on sexuality, marriage, and domestic violence / Aqeel Abdulla -- Shifting contexts: new perspectives on identity, space and mobility. Identifying Islamic spaces of worship in contemporary British Pakistani Muslim life writing / gerogia stabler -- Homes and belonging(s): the interconnectedness of space, movement and identity in British Pakistani novels / Eva Pataki -- Committed and communist: negotiating political alegiances in the diaspora / Miquel Pomar-Amer -- Unsettling narratives: imagining post-postcolonial perspectives. Non-human narrative agency: textual sedimentation in Pakistani anglophone literature / Asma Mansoor -- Post-postcolonial experiments with perspectives / Hanji Lee -- Peripheral modernism and realism in British-Pakistani fiction / Asher Ghaffar -- New horizons: towards a Pakistani idiom. "Brand Pakistan": global imaginings and national concerns in Pakistani anglophone literature / Barirah Nazir, Nicholas Holm and Kim l. Worthington -- Competing habitus: national expectations, metropolitan market and Pakistani writing in English (PWE) / Masood Raja -- De/reconstructing identities: critical approaches to contemporary Pakistani fiction / Faisal Nazir -- On the wings of poesy: Pakistani diaspora poets and the Pakistani idiom / Waseem Anwar -- Brand Pakistan: the case of Pakistani anglophone literary canon / Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam.
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