摘要：The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing Ed. Aroosa Kanwal & Saiyma Aslam.London. Routledge. 2018. 416 pages.The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing is a stupendous collection of essays, serving as a comprehensive preamble to historical, regional, local, and global issues ambient to cross-cultural relations, which are imperative to the reading of Pakistani anglophone literature. It covers the foremost issues such as terrorism, fundamentalism, intolerance, global security, and alienation in thirty critical essays. In addition, the book is a comprehensive and significant step toward the corollary of a transnational perspective of canon construction in Pakistani literature.Controversies and transformation have been observed in Pakistani anglophone literature since 1947. This companion reinforces the "presentness" of historical contexts, reminiscence, and their prodigious pertinence to what we think of as contemporary Pakistan. It includes eight parts, pursuing the basics of a historical understanding of Pakistani anglophone literature. Each part is interrelated to historical incidents such as civil wars, migration, ethnic and sectarian crises, and gender while covering minority issues such as Islamization, Talibanization, violence, otherness, and military dictatorships.For example, the earlier addressed phenomena of context and connection are hard to cover completely without political and social adherence to major historical events in Pakistan during General Zias dictatorial period (1977-88); the US-led Afghan jihad; Talibanization of Pakistan in the 1980s; the US attack on Afghanistan after 9/11; and the post-9/11 war against terrorism and religious and sectarian rivalries in the region based on multigenerational ethnic and political issues in the years of partition, first in 1947 and then in 1971.
