Wilderness of Possibilities Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective

Name: Wilderness of Possibilities Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective
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ISBN: 9780195670202

ISBN-10: 0195670205

ISBN-13: 9780195670202

Edition: 2005

Authors: Kathryn Hansen, David Lelyveld

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Over the past forty years the study of Urdu literature has played a dynamic role in contemporary discourses on culture and history, reaching out to a far-flung international community of scholars. The ten essays in this volume, assembled for Professor C. M. Naim, a pioneer of Urdu studies in the United States, exemplify the changing place of Urdu in the world today. They discuss diverse aspects of Urdu and Persian literature and poetry, between the sixteenth and twentiethcenturies. The focus is mainly on Urdu poetry offering a comprehensive introduction to the sociology, culture and politics of its enchanting and complex world but it also includes essays on travelogues, print journalism and…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/12/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.35" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgements


Note on Transliteration



Urdu literature and the Political Imaginary:


The Configural Mode: Ag ka Darya


The Afterlife of a Mughal Masnawi: The Tale of Nal and Daman in Urdu and Persian


Genre, Politics, History: Urdu Traditions of Padmini


From Akhbar to News: The Development of the Urdu Press in Early Nineteenth-Century Delhi


Britain in the Urdu Tongue: Accounts by Early Nineteenth-Century Visitors


Iqbal s Imagined Geographies: The East, the West, the Nation, and Islam



The Critical Project and its Revision


The Poet in the Poem or, Veiling the Utterance


Poet of the Bazaars: Nazir Akbarabadi, 1735-1830


Feminine Authorship and Urdu Poetic Tradition: Baharistan-i Naz vs. Tazkira-i Rekhti


The Meaning of Meaningless Verses : Ghalib and His Commentators


To You Your Cremation, To Me My Burial: The Ideals of Inter-Communal Harmony in Premchand s Karbala


Note on Contributors


Bibliography of C.M. Naim


Index