Nation, City, Household: Exploring the Contemporary Pakistani Women's Novel in English

Filling a gap in the field of research on English-language Pakistani narratives, Nation, City, Household is the first monographic study of contemporary Pakistani women’s writing. It sees fiction written by Pakistani female authors as a form of discursive agency that challenges both local patriarchal structures and Western representations that often portray Muslim women as voiceless and powerless. Adopting a spatial and affective perspective, it analyses a corpus of novels with strong female...