Abstract

Embedded in the sociopolitical milieu of the country, Anglophone Pakistani fiction provides a critical perspective on some of the important contemporary issues. By contextualising the works of four Pakistani fiction writers – Sara Suleri, Kamila Shamsie, Mohsin Hamid and Mohammed Hanif – in the theoretical paradigms of modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, this chapter identifies salient facets and characteristics of their fiction produced during the last three decades. I argue that Anglophone Pakistani fiction indicates the emergence of a new phase, ‘para-colonialism’ or ‘para-colonial fiction,’ which deconstructs various factors with an indigenous gaze.