Course Title: Pakistani Literature in English

Course Code: ENG-511
Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Contents:

Fiction

• Bapsi Sidhwa – An American Brat, Ice Candy Man
• Kamila Shamsie – Burnt Shadows
• Mohsin Hamid – How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
• Mohammad Hanif – Our Lady Of Alice Bhatti
• Nadeem Aslam – The Blind Man’s Garden

Poetry

• Zulfiqar Ghose – Disturbed Nights, Evidence of Genocide
• Salman Tarik Kureshi – Cottage, Housewarming, End of The Climb
• Adrian A. Hussain – A Rosary of Ants, Autumn Tree
• Moen Farooqi – Unfamiliar Morning, Winter Visit, The Still Life of Apples
• Taufiq Rafat – Wedding in the Flood, Kitchens, Gangrene, Snake, Grave in the Park, Reflections, Time to Love, Arrival of the Monsoon
• Farida Faizullah – On Being Offered a Rose by a Student

Screenplays

• Hanif Qureshi – My Son the Fanatic

Essays

• Zulfiqar Ghose – Orwell and I
• Intizaar Hussain – The Problems of Pakistani Identity
• Bapsi Sidhwa – Launching the Angels
• Rukhsana Ahmad – The Price of Freedom
• Shahid Suhrawardy – The Responsibility of Writers in Pakistan

Contemporary Short Stories

• Muneeza Shamsie – That Heathen Air, And the World Changed
• Aamer Hussain – The Keeper of the Shrine, A Needlewoman’s Calendar
• Kamila Shamsie – Hasan and The Sky, 9/11 Stories: Our Dead Your Dead
• Daniyal Mueenuddin – Nawab Din Electrician
• Bapsi Sidhwa – The Trouble-Easers
• Zaibunisa Hamidullah – Maa

Pakistani Literature in English

• A Feminism in Ice Candy Man
• An American Barat by Bapsi Sidhwa
• An American Barat Characters List
• Biography of Bapsi sidhwa
• Characters of Ice Candy Man
• Critical Analysis of Ice Candy
• Ice Candy Man Symbols
• Summary of Ice Candy Man
• Symbolism in an An American Barat by Bapsi Sidhwa
• Themes of An American Barat by Bapsi Sidhwa
• Themes of Ice Candy Man

Recommended Books:

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• Ahmed, Rehana, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin. Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing (Routledge, 2012).
• Aroosa Kanwal. Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015).
• Chambers, Claire. British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
• Cilano, Cara. Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State (Routledge, 2013).
• Clements, Madeline. Writing Islam from a South Asian Muslim Perspective (Springer, 2015).
• Daniyal Mueenuddin. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010).
• Hashmi, Alamgir. Ahmed Ali and the Transition to a Post-Colonial Mode in the Pakistani Novel in English. Journal of Modern Literature, Vol 17. No 1 (Summer 1990), pp. 177-182.
• Iftikhar Arif. Pakistani Literature. Pakistan Academy of Letters, 2002.
• Iftikhar Arif. Modern Poetry of Pakistan. Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.
• J. Sell. Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
• Jajja, Mohammad Ayub. The Heart Divided: A Post-Colonial Perspective on Partition. Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences (PJSS) Vol. 32, No. 2 (2012), pp. 297-307.
• Nor Faridah, Abdul Manaf, and Siti Nuraishah Ahmad. Pakistani Women’s Writings: Voice of Progress. International Research Journal of Arts and Humanities (IRJAH) Vol. 34, ISSN 1016-9342.
• Ranasinghe, Ruvani. Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women’s Fiction: Gender, Narration, and Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
• Rehman, Tariq. A History of Pakistani English Literature (Lahore, 1991).
• Shamsie, Muneeza. A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English (Oxford, 1998).