Zulfikar Ghose, The Murder of Aziz Khan

Nusrat Khawaja (Independent Scholar - Asia)

Ed. by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar - Asia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1967

Places

Pakistan (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

The Murder of Aziz Khan (1967) by Zulfikar Ghose was the first contemporary novel written in English by an author of Pakistani origin to focus on Pakistani people. With the burgeoning of Pakistani-English fiction in the twenty-first century, the novel not only maintained its relevance, but also proved to be a harbinger of the contemporary Pakistani-English novel, assuring its status as a classic in this expanding canon. The Murder of Aziz Khan was published one year after Ghose’s first novel The Contradictions (1966).

Ghose’s autobiography, Confessions of a Native-alien (1965), was written when he was barely thirty. The oxymoronic term “native-alien” …

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Citation: Khawaja, Nusrat. "The Murder of Aziz Khan". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 September 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11862, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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