Claire Chambers explores global literature, with a special focus on texts from Pakistan and its diaspora. Highlighting its quality and urgency, and authors' bold treatment of hot topics like Islamophobia, racism, and the culture industry, Chambers formulates a strong case for drawing this writing into the mainstream English canon and analyses emerging as well as established writers working in various genres.
Claire Chambers explores global literature, with a special focus on texts from Pakistan and its diaspora. Highlighting its quality and urgency, and authors' bold treatment of hot topics like Islamophobia, racism, and the culture industry, Chambers formulates a strong case for drawing this writing into the mainstream English canon and analyses emerging as well as established writers working in various genres.
Dr Claire Chambers is a well-known writer and literary critic. Her research focuses on modern literature from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, UK. Her publications include Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780-1989 (2015) and British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (2011). She is editor (with Dr Rachael Gilmour) of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and writes a regular literary column for the Dawn newspaper.
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* Acknowledgements * Introduction * I: Play on Words * 1. Writing Beyond Borders * 2. Postcolonial Lives * 3. 'To Love the Moor': Postcolonial Artists Write Back to Shakespeare's Othello * 4. The Princess and the Priest: Richard Dawkins' Attack on Fairy Tales * 5. Journalists in Fiction and Reality * II: Pakistan's Cities and Regions * 6. The Baloch Who Is Missing: Representations of Balochistan in Anglophone Prose * 7. Holy Women, Waderas, and 'Weapons of the Weak': Sindh in Contemporary Women's Writing * 8. 'Lahore Lahore Hai': Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid's Urban Fiction * 9. Literary Peshawar: From Kipling to the Present Day * 10. On a Hair Trigger: Images of Kashmir in Literature * 11. Isloo and Pindi on Page and Screen * III: Human Rights and Inhuman Wrongs * 12. Torturing the 'Other': Who is the Barbarian? * 13. Culture and the Arab Spring * 14. Advocacy Without Footnotes: Pakistani Cultural Production and Human Rights * 15. The Ugly Face of Attacks: Facing Up to Acid Violence in South Asian Writing * 16. 'The Reality and the Record': Muslim Refugee Stories * IV: Muslims, Islamophobia, and Racism in Britain * 17. We Are Here Because You Were There * 18. Early Twentieth-Century Muslim Women's Travel Accounts of Britain * 19. Disorientation as Loss of the East: Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall's Fiction * 20. From 'England-Returned' to 'Myth of Return' to the Point of No Return * 21. Islamophobia: Orwellian 'Newspeak' or Racially Inflected Hatred? * 22. 'Colour-Blind' Nigel Farage Lives in a White-Washed World * 23. Freedom as Floating or Falling * 24. Writing Muslim Lives * 25. Who Do YA Think You're Representing? Diversity in Young Adult Fiction * 26. Laughing At Ourselves * 27. Banglaphone Fiction: British Sylhetis in Writing by Londoni Authors * 28. In Praise of the Chapaterati * 29. Boris Johnson Lights Out for Virgin Territory * 30. Fight the Bannonality of Evil * V: Education, Theory, and the Creative Industries * 31. A Fanonian Summer * 32. Edward Said's Orientalism: Its Influence and Legacy * 33. The Barbarians Are at the Gate: On Self-Construction and the 'Other' * 34. Who's Saving Whom?: Postcolonialism and Feminism * 35. Festal or Fecal?: The Global Literary Festival * 36. The State We're In: Global Higher Education * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * I: Play on Words * 1. Writing Beyond Borders * 2. Postcolonial Lives * 3. 'To Love the Moor': Postcolonial Artists Write Back to Shakespeare's Othello * 4. The Princess and the Priest: Richard Dawkins' Attack on Fairy Tales * 5. Journalists in Fiction and Reality * II: Pakistan's Cities and Regions * 6. The Baloch Who Is Missing: Representations of Balochistan in Anglophone Prose * 7. Holy Women, Waderas, and 'Weapons of the Weak': Sindh in Contemporary Women's Writing * 8. 'Lahore Lahore Hai': Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid's Urban Fiction * 9. Literary Peshawar: From Kipling to the Present Day * 10. On a Hair Trigger: Images of Kashmir in Literature * 11. Isloo and Pindi on Page and Screen * III: Human Rights and Inhuman Wrongs * 12. Torturing the 'Other': Who is the Barbarian? * 13. Culture and the Arab Spring * 14. Advocacy Without Footnotes: Pakistani Cultural Production and Human Rights * 15. The Ugly Face of Attacks: Facing Up to Acid Violence in South Asian Writing * 16. 'The Reality and the Record': Muslim Refugee Stories * IV: Muslims, Islamophobia, and Racism in Britain * 17. We Are Here Because You Were There * 18. Early Twentieth-Century Muslim Women's Travel Accounts of Britain * 19. Disorientation as Loss of the East: Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall's Fiction * 20. From 'England-Returned' to 'Myth of Return' to the Point of No Return * 21. Islamophobia: Orwellian 'Newspeak' or Racially Inflected Hatred? * 22. 'Colour-Blind' Nigel Farage Lives in a White-Washed World * 23. Freedom as Floating or Falling * 24. Writing Muslim Lives * 25. Who Do YA Think You're Representing? Diversity in Young Adult Fiction * 26. Laughing At Ourselves * 27. Banglaphone Fiction: British Sylhetis in Writing by Londoni Authors * 28. In Praise of the Chapaterati * 29. Boris Johnson Lights Out for Virgin Territory * 30. Fight the Bannonality of Evil * V: Education, Theory, and the Creative Industries * 31. A Fanonian Summer * 32. Edward Said's Orientalism: Its Influence and Legacy * 33. The Barbarians Are at the Gate: On Self-Construction and the 'Other' * 34. Who's Saving Whom?: Postcolonialism and Feminism * 35. Festal or Fecal?: The Global Literary Festival * 36. The State We're In: Global Higher Education * Bibliography * Index
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