Background
Afzal-Khan, Fawzia was born on September 12, 1958 in Lahore, Pakistan. Daughter of Mohammed and Rashda Afzal.
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Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises the important question of how much the usage of certain ideological strategies actually helps the ex-colonized writer deal effectively with postcolonial and postindependence trauma and whether or not the choice of a particular genre or mode employed by a writer presupposes the extent to which that writer will be successful in challenging the ideological strategies of "containment" perpetuated by most Western "orientalist" texts and writers. She argues that the formal or generic choices of the four writers studied here reveal that they are using genre as an ideological "strategy of liberation" to help free their peoples and cultures from the hegemonic strategies of "containment" imposed upon them. She concludes that the works studied here constitute an ideological rebuttal of Western writers' denigrating "containment" of non-Western cultures. She also notes that self-criticism, as implied in Rushdie's works, is not be confused with self-hatred, a theme found in Naipaul's work.
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Professor of English director of Women
Afzal-Khan, Fawzia was born on September 12, 1958 in Lahore, Pakistan. Daughter of Mohammed and Rashda Afzal.
Bachelor, Kinnaird College, Lahore, 1978. Diplome Superieure, Alliance Francaise, Lahore, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, Tufts University, Massachusetts, 1986.
In English Literature from Tufts University. Afzal-Khan also serves on the editorial board of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. Afzal-Khan"s memoir, Lahore with Love: Growing up with Girlfriends Pakistani Style, was published in 2010 by Syracuse University Press.
The memoir was immediately received as a fine contribution to the women"s rights issues in Pakistan.
However, despite its positive reception, the book was soon dropped by Syracuse University Press due to fear of a lawsuit by a prominent Pakistani woman. The cancellation of the book by an academic press for fear of a lawsuit became an important issue in the academic circles.
Since the cancellation of the book, various academics, writers, and editors have supported Afzal-Khan in her right to free speech. Afzal-Khan has now published the memoir independently through the Amazon publishing platform.
Just recently, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies has also published a special cluster of articles about the book along with an interview with Afzal-Khan about the controversy.Pakistaniaat had earlier to published an interview with Fawzia, which was conducted by Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal.
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The first edition contained commending blurbs from prominent authors and scholars: Nawal El Saadawi called it a "beautiful memoir which challenges stereotypes, universal fanatic fundamentalism and religious, political, and sexual taboos" and Henry Louis Gates, Junior. found it to be a memoir that "weaves together memory and desire to create a tale that is marvelously compelling and endlessly entertaining, at once poignantly personal and richly political."
In an editorial, Richard Schechner and Katherine Lieder of The Drama Review castigated the Syracuse University Press for not standing up for the rights of free speech of one of their own authors.
Executive board member American Muslim Alliance, 2000—2009. Member Pakistani-American Democratic Forum, 2000—2009. Contributing editor Drama Review, New York City, since 2007.
Advisory board South Asian Review. Editoial board Journal Pakistani Postcolonial Studies, Ohio. Member of Modern Language Association.
Married Babar Ali Khan, August 1982. Children: Faryal Afzal Khan, Naader Ali Khan.