Urdu literary culture : vernacular modernity in the writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari / Mehr Afshan Farooqi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farooqi, Mehr Afshan.

Series:

Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ʻAskarī, Muḥammad Ḥasan, 1921-1978--Criticism and interpretation.

ʻAskarī, Muḥammad Ḥasan.

ʻAskarī, Muḥammad Ḥasan, 1921-1978.

Criticism and interpretation.

Urdu literature--History and criticism.

Urdu literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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 (1919-1978), 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. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137009029

1137009020

OCLC:

769871213