A Wilderness of Possibilities
Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 2 July 2009
- ISBN 9780198063254
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages318 pages
- Size 207x137x18 mm
- Weight 383 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 black and white halftone and line illustrations 0
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Short description:
The essays in this volume discuss diverse aspects of Urdu and Persian literature and poetry between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing mainly on Urdu poetry, the volume also includes essays on travelogues, print journalism, and a play, and exemplifies the changing place of Urdu in today's world.
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A Wilderness of Possibilities brings together eleven essays exemplifying the changing place of Urdu in today's world. Written by specialists in the field, they discuss diverse aspects of Urdu and Persian literature and poetry between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. While the focus is mainly on Urdu poetry, offering a comprehensive introduction to the sociology, culture, and politics of its enchanting and complex world, the volume also includes essays on travelogues,
print journalism, and a play. The first part explores the divergent social and political spaces that Urdu literature has occupied through the centuries while the second part critiques the paradigms that have informed Urdu literary history and point to new methodologies of reading. The book will interest
scholars and students of South Asian cultural history and literary studies as well as general readers interested in the subject.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Contributors
Introduction
URDU LITERATURE AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINARY
Kumkum Sangari, 'The Configural Mode: Ag ka Darya; Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, 'The Afterlife of a Mughal Masnavi: The Tale of Nal and Daman in Urdu and Persian'; Ramya Sreenivasan, 'Genre, Politics, History: Urdu Traditions of Padmini'; Gail Minault, 'From Akhbar to News: The Development of the Urdu Press in Early Nineteenth-Century Delhi'; Michael H. Fisher, 'Britain in the Urdu Tongue: Accounts by Early Nineteenth-Century Visitors'; Barbara D. Metcalf,
'Iqbal's Imagined Geographies: The East, the West, the Nation, and Islam'
THE CRITICAL PROJECT AND ITS REVISION
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, 'The Poet in the Poem or, Veiling the Utterance'; Aditya Behl, 'Poet of the Bazaars: Nazir Akbarabadi, 1735-1830'; Carla Petievich, 'Feminine Authorship and Urdu Poetic Tradition: Baharistan-i Naz vs Tazkira-i Rekhti'; Frances W. Pritchett, '"The Meaning of the Meaningless Verses": Ghalib and His Commentators'; Syed Akbar Hyder, 'To You Your Cremation, To Me My Burial: The Ideas of Inter-Communal Harmony in Premchand's Karbala'
Bibliography of C.M. Naim
Index
