..., and strategies in Pakistan . Lahore: Shirkat Gah. Exposed by Pakistani Street Theater THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF POSTMODERN CAPITALISM, PATRIARCHY, AND FUNDAMENTALISM The main question I...

.... “Pulp Fictions” READING PAKISTANI DOMESTICITY Maulvi Saheb saw a packet with monthly Ismat printed on it. Beneath it, Kamran in red ink, the packet was addressed to Sheikh Irfan ul Haq’s daughter. Asdar Ali Maulvi Mehrban Ali could...

...Bakirathi Mani In Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force , the Pakistani artist Seher Shah works with archival images of the 1903 Delhi Durbar and contemporary images of the U.S. “war on terror.” This essay examines how Shah's digital print binds together theaters of U.S. and British...

...Junaid Rana This essay draws on ethnographic research in a Pakistani neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, to illuminate how the concepts of becoming and infrastructure reveal insights into racialization and the workings of the counterterror state. I discuss the concepts of racial becoming and racial...

... select Pakistani, Kashmiri, and Indian texts that are marked, in form and content, by the irresolution produced by the LOC, in order to illustrate how this irresolution might affect the nationalisms concerned. In particular, a short story by Kashmiri author A. G. Athar enables me to conclude the article...

..., was destroyed as the culmination of a massive act of Hindu fascist political theater, provoking riots in the subcontinent and beyond. The conflicts in Lajja are entangled with this complex political, cultural, and historical web, which shaped the develop- ment of Indian, Pakistani/Bangladeshi, Muslim...

... decided that inmates of mental asylums should be exchanged. So mentally ill Mus- lims in Indian hospitals were to be transferred to Pakistan, and Hindu and Sikh patients in Pakistani asylums would be sent to India. Manto’s representation of partition’s “insanity” in this and other...

...- lion U.S. dollars, or 45 billion Pakistani rupees, was the first American- style highway ever built in the Indian subcontinent.1 Nawaz Sharif claimed as much as he shouted “There is not one motorway in the entire Hindustan” from his Caravan of Progress bus, which traversed the road...

... text and its supplementary genres, such as public health, anthropology, and psychology. The figure is named the “gay Pakistani immigrant,” and he is found in immigration proceedings, juridical cases, and legal journals. Though...

...”: Reflections on the Territorial Integrity of Oppression Pius Adesanmi 35 Reverse Postcoloniality Mark Driscoll 59 Reason or Reasoning? Clio or Siva? Sanjay Seth 85 The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore Rosinka Chaudhuri 103 “Pulp Fictions”: Reading Pakistani...

..., and Citizenship in Narratives of the Nation Usha Zacharias 29 Afro Reggae: Parlaying Culture into Social Justice George Yúdice 53 Exposed by Pakistani Street Theater: The Unholy Alliance of Postmodern Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Fundamentalism Fawzia Afzal-Khan 67 Feminine Villains, Masculine...

... unifying two widely disparate units, separated not only geographically but also by sharp cultural and linguistic differences. Over the years, various West Pakistani administrative, military, linguistic, civil, and economic controls over East Pakistan led to the liberation war that erupted in 1971...

... (nominated for best Pakistani singer by one fan Web site) and Hans Raj Hans (“the Great- est Singer of Punjab,” according to another fan Web site) mark the close relations and partial incorporation of Chadha’s fi lmic aesthetic...

... than just Indian, Pakistani, or Arab Muslims, Hindus in Queens and Jews in Long Island promoted their respective interests and forged new political relations. The leaders of both groups admit to being ignorant of each other’s history...

... Yúdice); Pakistani women’s street theater (Fawzia Afzal-Khan); diasporic Chinese in Panama City (Lok Siu); gender in India’s nation-building narrative (Usha Zacharias); and the utopian projections that flow from Mexican maquiladoras (Melissa W. Wright). They all activate what is coming to be known...

... experienced a wave of vio- lence, the likes of which they have never seen before. At least five people were killed: Balbir Singh Sodhi, forty-nine, a Sikh Indian in Mesa, Ari- zona; Waqar Hasan, forty-six, a Pakistani grocer in Dallas; Adel Karas, forty-eight, an Egyptian Coptic Christian in Los Angeles...

... Gulf state whose progressive reforms threaten U.S. oil interests in the region) and a young Pakistani migrant worker named Wasim who, upon being laid off from a Connex refinery, decides to become a suicide bomber. As a complement...

... seems possible that Asad’s equation of Islamism with reassertion of tradi- tion, if made the basis of an analysis of Pakistani culture, would require us to view the latter as simply another “Muslim” national formation...

..., in an attempt to cast Muslim Dilip Kumar’s reputation as an Indian in doubt, Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam labeled Kumar a “Pakistani”24 (more or less equivalent to labeling Kumar a traitor, during contemporary esca- lated tensions between...

... describe Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Chinese Any other ethnic group Please describe Nationality may be looming around somewhere, but ethnicity is prominent and somewhat fixed. The respondent is required to check one box...