Dispatches from Pakistan Contributor(s): Tahir, Madiha R. (Editor), Memon, Qalandar Bux (Editor), Prashad, Vijay (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0816692246 ISBN-13: 9780816692248 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $22.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | World - Middle Eastern |
Dewey: 954.910 |
LCCN: 2014001728 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece - Cultural Region - Middle East - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description:
This timely book brings together journalists, activists, academics, and artists to provide a rich, in-depth, and intriguing portrait of contemporary Pakistani society. Straddling a variety of boundaries--geographic, linguistic, and narrative--Dispatches from Pakistan is a vital attempt to speak for the multitude of Pakistanis who, in the face of seemingly unimaginable hardships, from drone strikes to crushing poverty, remain defiantly optimistic about their future. While engaging in conversations on issues that make the headlines in the West, the contributors also introduce less familiar dimensions of Pakistani life, highlighting the voices of urban poets, rural laborers, industrial workers, and religious-feminist activists--and recovering Pakistani society's inquilabi (revolutionary) undercurrents and its hopeful overtones. Contributors: Mahvish Ahmad; Nosheen Ali, U of California, Berkeley; Shafqat Hussain, Trinity College; Humeira Iqtidar, King's College London; Amina Jamal, Ryerson U; Hafeez Jamali, U of Texas at Austin; Iqbak Khattak; Zahra Malkani; Raza Mir; Hammad Nasar; Junaid Rana, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Maliha Safri, Drew U; Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, Lahore U of Management Sciences; Ayesha Siddiqa; Sultan-i-Rome, Government Jahanzeb Postgraduate College, Swat, Pakistan; Saadia Toor, Staten Island College. |