Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 by Schwartz, Kevin L.;

Rövid leírás:

Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia – at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging – this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia – at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging – this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. It challenges the manner in which Iranian nationalism has infilitrated Persian literary history writing and recovers the multi-regional breadth and vibrancy of a global lingua franca connecting peoples and places across Islamic Eurasia.
Focusing on 3 case studies (18th-century Isfahan, a small court in South India and the literary climate of the Anglo-Afghan war), it reveals the literary and cultural ties that bound this world together as well as some of the trends that broke it apart.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Translation

List of Maps, Figures and Illustrations

Contents

Introduction

1. ‘Literary Return’ as Literary Nationalism

1. Cosmopolitanism, Canon, Community

1. Oragnisation of the Study

Chapter 1. Remembering Iran, Forgetting the Persianate: Persian Literary Historiography of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

1. ‘Literary Return’ and the ‘Indian Style’

1. Iranian Story

1. Afghan Legacy
2. The Rise of the Durrani State and Bidilism

1. An ‘Afghan Literary Return’?

1. South Asian Stagnation
2. The ‘New Munshi’ and Transition to English

B. Language Competition and the Rise of Urdu

Chapter 2. Reformation and Reconstruction of Poetic Networks, Isfahan ca. 1722-1801

1. Disruptions and Continuities

1. Connections and Networks

1. Patronage and Formation

1. Conclusion

Chapter 3. A Market for the Masters, Afghanistan ca. 1839-1842

1. Preparing for Battle

1. Recounting the War: The War Ballad of ‘Ghulami’ and Oral Culture

1. A Bazgashtian Tale? The Book of Akbar of Hamid Allah Kashmiri

1. Propaganda and Patronage: The Victory Book of Kabul by Qasim Ali

1. The War-Ballad Marketplace

1. Conclusion

Chapter 4. Debating Poetry on the Edge of the Persianate World, Arcot ca. 1850

1. Pivot of Persian: The Life and Times of Muhammad Ghaws Khan ‘Aʿzam’

1. Mapping Networks

1. Writing Rivalry

1. Speaking for Persian

1. Conclusion

Conclusion

Back Matter

Bibliography