Introduction

Section I

Genres and Early Fiction

1. Fruits of Freedom: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Writings as Genre

Fiction

Barnita Bagchi

2. Locating Romance and Women Writers in Urdu Literature: Hijab Imtiaz Ali’s Genre

Fiction
Shweta Sachdeva Jha

3. “I’m nobody! Who are you?” Mrs. Abdul Q?dir’s Horror Fiction and the Non-

Authorial

Jaideep Pandey

4. Gendering the Urdu Novel: Muhammadi Begum, Abbasi Begum, and the Women

Question

Mohammed Afzal

Section II

Genres and Modernity

5. Women Who Wielded Pens: Khadija Mastur

Mehr Afshan Farooqi

6. “Studies in [ ] Dying Culture[s]”: Qurratulain Hyder and Urdu Fantasy Fiction in Self-translation

Fatima Rizvi

7. “The Forbidden City”: An Exploration of Wajida Tabassum’s Fiction

Wafa Hamid

8. ‘1971 Novels’ in Bangladesh: Women’s Writing between the Popular and the Literary

Mosarrap Hossain Khan

9. Sunlight on a Broken Column and The Heart Divided as Autobiographically-Inspired

Realist Texts: Navigating Gendered Socio-political Identities in Genre Fiction

Mobeen Hussain

Section III

Postcolonial Genres

10. “Obedient daughters" and the Deployment of Graphic Stereotypes

Christel Devadawson

11 Contemporary Politics and Prehistoric Past through Popular Genres: Maha Khan

Phillips’ Novels

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

12. Occupying Educational and Intellectual Space: Woman as Radical Flaneuse in Zahida Zaidi’s Campus Novel Inqilab Ka Ek Din

Aysha Munira Rasheed

13. Making Sense of Conversion to Christianity in Twentieth-Century Pakistan: Two

Women’s Co-Authored Autobiographies as Crafted Accounts

Madeline Clements

14. Feminist Futures in the Speculative Fictions of Andaleeb Wajid and Bina Shah

Umme Al-wazedi