Who is a Muslim? : orientalism and literary populisms / Maryam Wasif Khan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, Maryam Wasif, author.

Series:

Fordham scholarship online.

Fordham scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urdu literature--History and criticism.

Urdu literature.

Islam in literature.

Muslims in literature.

Islam and literature--Pakistan--History.

Islam and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 257 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Who is a Muslim?' argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant forms in contemporary Pakistan - popular novels, short stories, television serials - is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question - who is a Muslim - is predominant in 18th century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief amongst them, but takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the modern Urdu literary formation, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate on the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Note on Transliteration

Introduction. Who Is a Muslim?

1. Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale

2. Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony

3. Nation/Qaum: The "Musalmans" of India

4. Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel

5. Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel

Epilogue. Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780823297351

0823297357

9780823290147

082329014X

OCLC:

1226594106