“Critical Realisms” in Savera: Mapping an Evolution of Progressive Urdu Literature in Post-partition India

Areej Akhtar is a senior at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) majoring in English literature and minoring in religion. Her undergraduate thesis centers on the genre of harem literature, focusing particularly on the construction of the Muslim women’s sensuality through the spatial and gendered category of the “Orient.” She is currently a research assistant at the Speculative Literature Foundation, Chicago.

Javaria Ahmad is an anthropology/sociology graduate and a qualitative researcher with a minor in education from LUMS. Currently serving as an instructional design partner, Javaria is interested in researching and reforming classroom pedagogy; her other research interests include subaltern and postcolonial studies and the experiences of marginalized communities, especially women and religious minorities in South Asia.

Sana Farrukh currently resides in Lahore, Pakistan. They graduated from Lahore University of Management Sciences with a bachelor’s degree in political science and plan to pursue a career in Pakistan civil services. They took part in the Revolutionary Papers issue on critical realism in the subcontinent as a part of their print cultures course final project.