Amrita Pritam’s "To Waris Shah" Translation by Khushwant Singh. A Feminist Poetic Memoir of Partition Trauma of Punjab PDF Download

Author: Aparna Lakshmi
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3346262804
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23

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Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The article aims to understand how Pritam’s poem "To Waris Shah" shattered the Gandhian utopia of united India by documenting how the domestic and foreign agendas of communal hatred got drawn on the bodies of women. Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi poem, "To Waris Shah" ("Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu", 1948) is translated into English by Khushwant Singh in 1982. Pritam gets hailed as the modernist literary heiress of the Punjabi Sufi poet, Waris Shah. Amrita Pritam in her elegy, To Waris Shah, attempts to wake her deceased idol forcing him to listen and witness the India-Pakistan Partition of 1947 that costed the heart-breaking wails of millions of daughters like Heer, the 'daughter of Punjab'.

Author: Aparna Lakshmi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783346262813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: The article aims to understand how Pritam's poem "To Waris Shah" shattered the Gandhian utopia of united India by documenting how the domestic and foreign agendas of communal hatred got drawn on the bodies of women. Amrita Pritam's Punjabi poem, "To Waris Shah" ("Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu", 1948) is translated into English by Khushwant Singh in 1982. Pritam gets hailed as the modernist literary heiress of the Punjabi Sufi poet, Waris Shah. Amrita Pritam in her elegy, To Waris Shah, attempts to wake her deceased idol forcing him to listen and witness the India-Pakistan Partition of 1947 that costed the heart-breaking wails of millions of daughters like Heer, the 'daughter of Punjab'.

Author: Hina Nandrajog
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100082215X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Amrita Pritam was a prominent Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist who captured the realities of everyday life in the India of the early 1900s India and presented the unique voices of the women of the Indian subcontinent. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the writer’s work by situating it in the context of not just Punjabi literature but Indian literature, while showcasing their continued relevance in contemporary times. With a career spanning over six decades, she Pritam produced over 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were all translated into several Indian and foreign languages. This volume includes critical essays on her works as well as a selection of her poems and stories in translation including, ‘A Call to Waris Shah’ (Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah nu), The Skeleton (Pinjar) and Village No. 36 (Khabarnama Te Chak No. 36) and excerpts from other prominent writings to give readers a glimpse into Pritam’s her rich literary oeuvre as well as her legacy in a post-colonial India which is still grappling with many of the same taboos around gender, national and religious identity and women’s sexuality. It discusses the diversity of themes and socio-cultural realities in her writings works focusing especially on her writings on Punjab, agency of her women protagonists, national and communal identities and the testimonies of the traumas which the cataclysmic 1947 Partition of India brought on women. A writer who consistently subverted the existing social, political and patriarchal structures of her times, both in her life and in her writings, this book encapsulates the relevance of her writing and her voice in our times. Part of the ‘Writer in Context’ series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Hindi literature, Punjabi Literature, English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, global south studies and translation studies.

Author: Hamza Hassan Sheikh
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130433404X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Splashes of Moonlight is the collection of poems of Amrita Pritam, translated from Punjabi to English by Hamza Hassan Sheikh. This book is containing 50 famous poems of Amrita Pritam which are translated from Punjabi to English.

Author: Hamza Hassan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724502698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Splashes of Moonlight is the collection of poems of Amrita Pritam, translated from Punjabi to English by Hamza Hassan Sheikh. This book is containing 50 famous poems of Amrita Pritam which are translated from Punjabi to English.

Author: Darshan Singh Maini
Publisher: New Delhi : Vikas
ISBN:
Category : Panjabi poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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The Volume Comprising Ten Essays, Written Over A Period Of Time, Is Principally A Sum Of Critical Responses To Some Of The Great Poets, Such As Sheikh Farib, Guru Nanak Dev, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Warris Shah, Bhai Vir Singh, Puran Singh, Mohan Singh, Amrita Pritam And Shiv Batalvi In The Punjabi Language.

Author: Sayyed Shah
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484994221
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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This is an English translation of the Punjabi epic poem Heer Waris Shah. The poem has remained popular among Punjabis for almost three centuries. The author believes that non-Punjabis would also enjoy this work. It should also find acceptance among those Punjabis who cannot read the original, Gurmukhi or Shahmukhi, version, including the children of Punjabis raised in the West.

Author: Nirupama Dutt
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184757549
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Lal Singh Dil is a legend in Punjab, famed as much for his rousing poetry as for the brew of his tea stall. Born into the 'untouchable' Dalit community in the years before partition, he bravely challenged deep-rooted social prejudices through his crisp and stirring verses. His struggle led him to join the Naxalite movement – an experience that culminated in three horrifying years of torture at the hands of the police. In his later years, much to the dismay of his comrades, he converted to Islam because he believed that its tenets could be reconciled with theegalitarian and inclusive principles of communism. A powerful indictment of caste violence and discrimination, Poet of the Revolution describes dil’s most turbulent years in his clear, fiery voice. Translated into English for the first time, this book also includes a selection of his most memorable poems.

Author: Waris Shah
Publisher: books catalog
ISBN: 9788129103796
Category : Narrative poetry, Panjabi
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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The Adventures of Hir and Ranjha, the immortal love story, is regarded as a classic of Punjabi literature. It speaks of the unbounded love that two souls have for each other, how they defy the taboos of their society, face the vicissitudes of fortune and yet remain true to each other. But they are also star-crossed lovers and ultimately united only in death. More than the story, it is the presentation of Waris that has immortalised the romance in the classical literature of India. The tragic love story of Hir and Ranjha has been a favourite theme with poets and writers for centuries. It was a well-known story that existed long before Waris Shah penned it down (around 1766) in the same way as the Faust legend existed long before Goethe.

Author: Amrita Pritam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788176503112
Category : Panjabi poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Selection of a renowned Panjabi litterateur.