... This chapter contributes to scholarly discussions of the role of popular fiction in the development of a female selfhood. It explores how reading Urdu-language fiction contributed to the development of a young Muslim girl’s sense of self, as she was growing up in the 1920s in a scholarly...

... Agar's Tale is a nineteenth-century Urdu qissah that recounts the adventures of Agar, a prince who was born as a girl. From a modern queer/trans liberatory standpoint, the pervasive queerness of this story appears warrant a celebratory reading. However, this reading of Agar's Tale takes...

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... A report on the poetry of Aqeel Shatir, a Muslim poet in Gujarat, where in 2002 more than a thousand Muslims were killed by Hindu mobs. Shatir writes in Urdu, a language predominantly used by Muslims in India. A few years ago, Shatir was in the news when a critic introducing his book remarked...

... In chapter seven, Shankar follows one of the Sahaayaka mentors as he moves through an Urdu medium school in South Karnataka. Shankar reveals the way that Sahaayaka's organizational ideology, which limits any explicit focus on a specific minority community, results in a praxis that largely...

... the limits of the scholarly periodization of a homophilic past cut off from a homophobic present, and disclose the past's desire to make its own future. Sufi queer history South Asia gender sexuality Agar's Tale is a nineteenth-century Urdu qissah that recounts the adventures of Agar...

... on the poetry of Aqeel Shatir, a Muslim poet in Gujarat, where in 2002 more than a thousand Muslims were killed by Hindu mobs. Shatir writes in Urdu, a language predominantly used by Muslims in India. A few years ago, Shatir was in the news when a critic introducing his book remarked on how the Gujarat chief...

...Negotiating Autobiography<subtitle>Between Assertion and Subversion</subtitle> This chapter contributes to scholarly discussions of the role of popular fiction in the development of a female selfhood. It explores how reading Urdu-language fiction contributed to the development of a young...

... Born in Pakistan, the Urdu modernist poet Miraji began his forays into translation and lyric by scrounging for literary exemplars in Lahore libraries. Among them was the poet Sappho. This chapter turns to Miraji's essay on Sappho, a lyricist whose life and lyric was always on the move to speak...

... moves through an Urdu medium school in South Karnataka. Shankar reveals the way that Sahaayaka's organizational ideology, which limits any explicit focus on a specific minority community, results in a praxis that largely invisibilizes the needs of majority Muslim schools. In turn, the fieldworkers...