V 16 N 1
Spring 2009

Special Issue:
Pakistani Literature

Guest Editors:
Waqas Khwaja and Ghazala Hashmi

Articles
Title		Author	Page
Introduction		Waqas Khwaja	3
"Freeing the Outlook of Man fromt Its Geographic Limitations": The Supraterritoriality of Pakistani English- and Urdu-Language Literatures		Cara Cilano	9
"Between Food and the Body": Sara Suleri's Edible Histories		Julietta Singh	26
Home and the World: Women's Place in the Home and Nation in Cracking India		Sohinee Roy	45
"Our Life is Like a Candle Flame": Urdu Tropes and Muslim Consciousness in Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi		Khurram Khurshid	64
Another('s) Way of Knowing: Memory, Testimony, and Subjectivity in Bapsi Sidhwa's "Defend Yourself Against Me"		Divya Victor	82
Time is God: Temporality in Pakistani Modernism		A. Sean Pue	101
Imperial Shadows: A Tale of Two Childhoods, Colonial and Post-Colonial		Muneeza Shamsie	114
Book Review Essays
"Writing the Human Condition: Pakistani Poetry in English"		Ilona S. Yusuf	133
	Split World, Poems 1990-2005, by Moniza Alvi
	Europa, by Moniza Alvi
	Skin, by Faraz Maqsood Hamidi
	The Ramazan Libation, by Alamgir Hashmi
	Voices and Visions, Young Writers from Pakistan, edited by Norman Ohler and Amra Raza
	Half Moon, Poems 1979-1983, by Taufiq Rafat
	Left-Hand-Speak, by Hima Raza
Women Writers: Voices from Pakistan"		Mubina Talaat	145
	Pakistani Women Writers I: Short Stories, edited by Fakhar Zaman
	And The World Changed, edited by Muneeza Shamsie
	Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out, edited by Fawzia Afzal Khan
"Literature by Pakistani Writers: Stories of Betrayal, Loss, and Hope"		Deepti Priya Mehrotra	156
	The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
	The Geometry of God, by Uzma Aslam Khan
	A Case of Exploding Mangoes, by Mohammad Hanif
	Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie
	The Wish Maker, by Ali Sethi

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