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THE WORLD CHANGED: CONTEMPORARY STORIES
BY PAKISTANI WOMEN
Muneeza Shamsie
(Ed.)
Rs 350 Pb 2005
81-88965-23-5
(Pakistani rights sold. All others available.)
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Despite individual
success, English language writing by Pakistani women,
as a body of work, is not widely known. The intention
of this anthology is to break 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 writing 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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Aamina Ahmad, Bapsi Sidhwa, Bina Shah,
Fahmida Riaz, Feryal Ali Gauhar, Fawzia Afzal Khan,
Hima Raza, Humera Afridi, Kamila Shamsie, Maniza
Naqvi, Muneeza Shamsie, Nayyara Rahman, Qaisra Shahraz,
Roshni Rustomji, Rukhsana Ahmad, Sara Suleri, Sabyn
Javeri-Jilani, Sehba Sarwar, Shahrukh Husain, Soniah
Kamal, Sorayya Khan, Tahira Naqvi, Talat Abbasi
and Uzma Aslam Khan.
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MUNEEZA
SHAMSIE
was born
in Lahore, educated in England and has lived
in Karachi for most of her life. Since 1982
she has been a regular contributor of freelance
articles, interviews and book reviews to Dawn;
she also writes for Newsline
and She.
Her work has appeared in Arts
and the Islamic World,
The Herald,
Himal, Index on Censorship, The Muslim, The
News, Zameen
and The Toronto
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