9th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures and Cultures, August 2016
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 9 | June 6, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]
English language literature in Pakistan is not a new thing compared to other nations of South Asia. It is during the last decade that Pakistani English novelists have gained popularity like never before. They have attracted the readers of the entire world. Joanna Lobo, a news reporter of ‘Times of India’ writes in an article:
As a country, Pakistan has undergone a series of seismic changes through its history. Its literature has also seen many changes. I would like to focus here on the two main sets of changes. The first is the changing trend in choice of literary form, i.e. the rising preference for prose over poetry: the second relates to changes in literary content, as reflected in the growing predominance of political themes in Pakistan’s English language fiction. -(Lobo, “The Case of Exploding…”, “TOI”) (more…)