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Experiments in Silence : The Urdu Short Story After 1947 / Sana R. Chaudhry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaudhry, Sana R., author.
- Series:
- Modernist constellations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Urdu--History and criticism.
- Short stories, Urdu.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Path to Open
- Path to Open.
- Place of Publication:
- Clemson, SA : Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- The Partition of India in 1947 has come to occupy a central space in the timeline of modern trauma studies and states of exception. However, within the field of Partition studies, little has been written about Urdu literature. And, within Urdu literature, even less has been written about the Urdu short story, or afsana. This book intervenes in the current scholarship on Partition trauma by foregrounding the Urdu short story as a literary manifestation and exploration of collective cultural trauma, unspeakability, silence and the fraught historical (post)memory of Partition. Placing Urdu literature in dialogue with European thought, this book bridges fields of study and intellectual as well as historical and critical contexts that have not been put in conversation with each other before.-- Provided by the publisher.
- "The Partition of India in 1947 has come to occupy a central space in the timeline of modern trauma studies and states of exception. However, within the field of Partition studies, little has been written about Urdu literature. And, within Urdu literature, even less has been written about the Urdu short story, or afsana. This book intervenes in the current scholarship on Partition trauma by foregrounding the Urdu short story as a literary manifestation and exploration of collective cultural trauma, unspeakability, silence and the fraught historical (post)memory of Partition. Placing Urdu literature in dialogue with European thought, this book bridges fields of study and intellectual as well as historical and critical contexts that have not been put in conversation with each other before.-- From JSTOR.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 4, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9781638041474
- 1638041474
- OCLC:
- 1463339038
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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