Author: Mehr A. FarooqiPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature: Poetry and prose miscellany
Author: Mehr Afshan FarooqiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The poetry section in the `Poetry and Prose Miscellany` volume begins with akbar Illahabadi (1846-1921), feature such celebrated practitioners of the genre as Muhmmad Iqbal, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Munibur Rehman, and Akhlaq Muhammad Khan Shahryar among others, and finally Tanveer Anjum. Prose Miscellany - essays and sketches, autobiography, drama, humour and satire, and letters - feature such past masters as Abdul Kalam Azad, Shahid Ahmad Delhvi, Saadat Hasan Manto, and Ismat Chughtai, and also includes an interesting selection of anecdotes about well known literary personages like Ghalib, Mir Insha ullah Khan Insha, Josh Malihabadi, and others - something that rarely receives the deserved imoportance in canonical literature.
˜Theœ Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature
Author: Mehr A. FarooqiThe Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature
Author: Mehr Afshan FarooqiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The `Fiction` volume includes both short stories and extracts from novels and novellas. Beginning with Muhammad Hadi Ruswa (1857-1931), it moves on to Premchand, Ghulam Abbas, Krishan Chander, Rajender singh Bedi, Intizar Husain, Qurratulain Hyder, Abdullah Hussein, and Naiyer Masud among others, and finally, Syed Muhammad Ashraf.
Urdu Literary Culture
Author: Mehr Afshan FarooqiPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137009029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari (1919-78), Urdu's first and finest literary critic. Askari's life was lived at the crossroads of early nation formation in South Asia—this study provides a detailed treatment of the intellectual world that Askari inhabited and complicates previously held notions about his life and work by looking at some of his writing through the lens of sexuality. Mehr Afshan Farooqi argues that Askari's work challenges the assumptions of rational Western thought and provides profound ways to think and reflect on the damages that colonial subjugation has imposed on selfhood, culture, and literature. Askari was a postcolonial before its time, writing in a language (Urdu) that has not drawn the attention of the Western academy. This book is an effort to address the problem.
Āb-e Ḥayāt
Author: Muḥammad Ḥusain ĀzādPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195666342
Category : Urdu poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a brilliant translation of the Aab-e-hayat (Water of Life), the last classical anthology of Urdu poetry. First published in 1880, it has exerted enormous influence over modern Urdu literary history.
Modern Poetry of Pakistan
Author: Iftikhar ArifPublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564786692
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Modern Poetry of Pakistan brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from seven major languages, six of them regional (Baluchi, Kashmiri, Panjabi, Pashto, Seraiki, and Sindhi) and one national (Urdu). Collecting the work of forty-two poets and fifteen translators, this book reveals a society riven by ethnic, class, and political differences—but also a beautiful and truly national literature, with work both classical and modern, belonging to the same culture and sharing many of the same concerns and perceptions.
The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry
Author: Vinay DharwadkerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Chiefly English translation from fourteen Indian languages.
An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry
Author: M. H. K. QureshiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urdu poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Contemporary World Fiction
Author: Juris DilevkoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598849093
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.
The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
Author: Geetha Ganapathy-DoréPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443828181
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Indian writers of English such as G. V. Desani, Salman Rushdie, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Allan Sealy, Shashi Tharoor, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Chandra and Jhumpa Lahiri have taken the potentialities of the novel form to new heights. Against the background of the genre’s macro-history, this study attempts to explain the stunning vitality, colourful diversity, and the outstanding but sometimes controversial success of postcolonial Indian novels in the light of ongoing debates in postcolonial studies. It analyses the warp and woof of the novelistic text through a cross-sectional scrutiny of the issues of democracy, the poetics of space, the times of empire, nation and globalization, self-writing in the auto/meta/docu-fictional modes, the musical, pictorial, cinematic and culinary intertextualities that run through this hyperpalimpsestic practice and the politics of gender, caste and language that gives it an inimitable stamp. This concise and readable survey gives us intimations of a truly world literature as imagined by Francophone writers because the postcolonial Indian novel is a concrete illustration of how “language liberated from its exclusive pact with the nation can enter into a dialogue with a vast polyphonic ensemble.”