In the New Century

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ISBN 9780199060917
Category(s) English Literature
Description

In The New Century: An Anthology of Pakistani English Literature provides an important addition to Shamsie’s literary history Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of a Pakistani Literature in English (2004) as it includes texts linked to many of works discussed in Hybrid Tapestries, but focuses on writings published between 1997 and 2017.  As the century turned, Pakistani English continued to grow and develop, as the new star in Anglophone literature. This book is also an important follow-up to Shamsie’s first anthology, A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English which was published in 1997 to mark Pakistan’s Golden Jubilee, covered the first fifty years of Pakistan.

  In the New Century brings together, for the first time, the post-1997 texts by 85 writers of Pakistani origin including novels, short fiction, and life writing such as memoir essays by leading screenwriters and dramatists. The book includes the work of talented new, award-winning authors who emerged in the last two decades, alongside an earlier generation that  published major new work in the new century.

  The fiction of Tariq Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Uzma Aslam Khan, Zulfikar Ghose, Mohsin Hamid, Aamer Hussein, Abdullah Hussein, Mohammed Hanif, Hanif Kureishi, Daniyal Mueenuddin, H.M. Naqvi, Kamila Shamsie and Bapsi Sidhwa, the memoirs of Rukhsana Ahmad, and Ayub Khan Din, Sara Suleri Goodyear, the poetry of Taufiq Rafat, Moniza Alvi, Imtiaz Dharker, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Adrian A. Hussain, Mahmood Jamal, and Hima Raza, are all featured here, as are many others. The book also reveals new talents such as Kanza Javed, and Sophia Khan 

  In the New Century covers writers of Pakistani origin, living in Pakistan and the diaspora, to reveal both the links and differences between the two. In turn, it generates an important discourse on issues of identity, belonging, and homeland, issues that are pivotal and more relevant than ever in our interconnected global world.

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Author Description

Muneeza Shamsie (nee Habibullah) a writer, critic and bibliographer, is a leading authority on Pakistani English literature and received the Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2024 for her contribution to Pakistani Literature in English. She is the author of a literary history, Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English (2024) and the editor of three anthologies, And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2006), Leaving Home: Towards a New Millennium: A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers (2002)          , A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English (1997) all published by Oxford University Press.           

The American edition of her third anthology, And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women, received the IPPY Gold Award (2009) and the Foreword Bronze Award (2008) in the United States.

Muneeza is the Area Editor for the online Literary Encyclopedia and the Bibliographic Representative (Pakistan) for Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly The Journal of Commonwealth Literature) and serves on the advisory boards for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and the International Centre of Pakistani Writing in English. She has chaired literary prize juries, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia) in 2010 and 2011.  in 2013, she served on the jury for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and in Pakistan, was co-juror with Kate Pullinger for Sketches from Boz a British Council Creative Writing Competition. Based in Karachi, she regularly contributes to the Pakistani press.