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Tracing Issues of Identity, Gender, and Politics in Contemporary Pakistani Literary Journalism
(UMT, Lahore, 2024) Faiqa
The current research aims to explore the contribution of contemporary Pakistani writers in the field of Literary Journalism. During the last two decades, Pakistani writers and their oeuvre based on fiction writings became popular due to themes associated with the post 9/11 scenario. Simultaneously, there have been plenty of works written by Pakistani writers in Creative Nonfiction (CNF), including travelogues, articles, memoirs, essays etc. which could not become the focus of debate in the literary circles due to the unacknowledged status of the genre. CNF works are of paramount importance because they offer an immediate critique of significant current events, situations, or beliefs, but unfortunately, they are neither acknowledged nor archived. Considering this lack of attention, the research addresses the need to acknowledge literary journalism (LJ), which is a subgenre of CNF, as a popular genre in Pakistani literature by evaluating the nonfiction writings of Mohsin Hamid, Mohammad Hanif, and Bina Shah. This research is an effort to discover the ‘position’ of writers as social thinkers in developing narratives of national, gender, and political identity.