Pakistani English literature rose to global prominence in the 2000s
Evidence
In the same vein, Muneeza Shamsie writes of the upsurge of interest in Pakistani art and literature in the early twenty-first century: “This period also witnessed an unprecedented flowering of international acclaim for new, multicultural and multi-dimensional art forms by Pakistanis, a fusion of the old and new across the borders and nations. Pakistani pop music, paintings, sculptures, and films drew audiences from New York and London to Dubai and Singapore. Pakistani–English literature was a leading light in this new firmament” (Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English [Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2017], 382). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 876
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Provides the market context for why Hamid and Naqvi could be published and read globally — the ‘new firmament’ the reader’s two novels belong to.
Related
- Anti-Islamophobic fiction is embedded in the very capitalist culture industry it contests (similarity 0.80)
- Global market language biases shape which Muslim-authored fiction circulates (similarity 0.79)
- Literature embedded in global markets may be unable to contest capitalism’s Islamophobia (similarity 0.79)
- Pakistani fiction is inherently internationalist, facing at least two ways (similarity 0.78)