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AND THE WORLD CHANGED: CONTEMPORARY STORIES BY PAKISTANI WOMEN
Muneeza Shamsie (Ed.)
Rs 350 Pb 2005
81-88965-23-5
(US, Canada and 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.
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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 Review.
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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