Thesis
WORLD LITERATURE AND THE CONTEMPORARY PAKISTANI ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
05/2025
Abstract
Over the centuries, the hegemonic systems of World Literature, its colonial history, and its neo-orientalist orientations have decided the production, circulation, translation, and acclamation of literary works and their authors. By drawing attention to what is invisible in the still highly anglophonic global literary market: the Pakistani texts that remain obscured in the dust of profit and fame yet contain the essence of the local, the vernacular, resistance, and peripheral adab (literature), this research aims to create an alternative Pakistani counter shelf of the Global South library as a response to T. B. Macaulay’s infamous words that “a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India” (3).
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- Title
- WORLD LITERATURE AND THE CONTEMPORARY PAKISTANI ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE
- Creators
- Daman Khalid
- Contributors
- Bibhushana Poudyal (Chair)John Streamas (Committee Member)Donna Potts (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of English
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 80
- Identifiers
- 99901220469701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis