| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations |
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Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world |
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Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.
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| Contents |
Quot rami tot arbores: as many branches as many trees: the University of Allahabad and beyond -- Askari and Firaq: personal relations in life and letters -- Fiction, theory of fiction, and the critical view -- Jhalkiyan: world literature, partition, and rupture -- The illusion of form and the power of tradition -- Revisiting the Indo-Muslim cultural consciousness: Askari and Iqbal -- Resuming the past: bright morning and foggy night |
| Summary |
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 o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
ʻAskarī, Muḥammad Ḥasan, 1921-1978 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
ʻAskarī, Muḥammad Ḥasan, 1921-1978 fast |
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Urdu literature -- History and criticism
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature -- Urdu.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Literature.
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Urdu literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137026927 |
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1137026928 |
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1137009020 |
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9781137009029 |
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1283532956 |
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9781283532952 |
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9786613845405 |
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661384540X |
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