Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures

by Shazia Sadaf and Aroosa Kanwal

As the first book-length study of emergent Pakistani speculative fiction written in English, this critical work explores the ways in which contemporary Pakistani authors extend the genre in new directions by challenging the cognitive majoritarianism (usually Western) in this field. Responding to the recent Afro science fiction movement that has spurred non-Western writers to seek a democratization of the broader genre of speculative fiction, Pakistani...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032559519
• ISBN13: 9781032559513
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"