Sauleha Kamal is a researcher and writer. Her current academic book project looks at the connections between the anglophone Pakistani novel, empathy and human rights and problematizes these connections in terms of the economic aims of the literary marketplace. She is an alumna of the University of Cambridge, where she was a Chevening & Cambridge Trust scholar, and Barnard College, Columbia University, where she studied English and Economics. Her work has appeared in various places including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Catapult, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Postcolonial Text. She is co-editing a special issue for the Journal of World Literature. She was a writer-in-residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York in Fall 2019. Email: sauleha.kamal [at] york.ac.uk
by Sauleha Kamal “This is the mentality of our society. If someone is speaking English, he or she is really good, he or she is from a very good background,” one subaltern English learner tells the researchers in this study. “When someone speaks good English, Shah says, people assume that person is educated, knows how…
by Sauleha Kamal With In the New Century: An Anthology of Pakistani Literature in English, Muneeza Shamsie, the time‑tested chronicler of Pakistani writing in English, presents what is arguably the definitive anthology in this genre. Across her collections, criticism, and commentary, Shamsie has chronicled, championed, and clarified the growth of a literary tradition that is…
by Sauleha Kamal Narrating Pakistan: An Anthology of Contemporary Creative Writing sets a lofty aim for itself: “to explore the idea of Pakistan through contemporary stories—the term, the country, the nation, the identity…”. There have been a few attempts to anthologize Pakistan in the past few decades. Oxford University Press anthologies like I’ll Find My Way…