... Literature . Vol. 1 . East Lansing : Asian Studies Center, Michigan State UP , 1974 . 1 – 35 . Print . Duara Parsenjit . “The Discourse of Civilization and Pan-Asianism.” Journal of World History 12 . 1 ( 2001 ): 99 – 130 . Print . Faruqi Shamsur Rahman . Early Urdu Literary...

..., like the work of historical poetics as a methodology, honors the history of the form’s travel through its appearance in contemporary American English. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 world literature historical poetics lyric Persian Urdu SINCE...

... and bourgeois sexual discipline in late colonial India. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 Ismat Chughtai disgust affect Urdu literature erotic texture IN AN EXTRAORDINARY experiment in sensory aesthetics, written in the 1940s, Urdu feminist writer and anticolonial activist Ismat...

... by writers connected with the Progressive Writers’ Movement. See, for example, Ahmed 162–63 ; Jalil 306–7 . The body of Partition literature in Hindi and Urdu grew significantly after 1970. During the 1950s and 1960s, both nayī kahānī and Urdu nayā afsānā (new story) writers explored similar themes...

... and the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case .” Journal of South Asian Literature 27 , no. 2 ( 1992 ): 175 – 85 . Dryland Estelle . Faiz Ahmed Faiz, 1911–1984, Urdu Poet of Social Realism . Lahore : Vanguard , 1993 . Edgar Adrienne Lynn . Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan...

... vernacularization in this fashion and mobilized instead an accounting of the brutalist colonial histories where it was deployed for colonial transformation? The Urdu modernist poet Miraji (1912–1949), eschewing the term “vernacular,” mined English and European languages, and other Asian and Indian literary lineages...

... and received categories that point to the ambiguity of lived cultures (in Urdu-Hindi and English), an uncertainty about evaluative judgment, and the inability to make claims on an often deterritorialized (global anglophone) or institutional US (postcolonial, world literature) category of texts and ideas. 12...

... to these questions by retracing a colonial genealogy of the (Anglophone) vernacular as a term emergent in South Asian contexts, with subtle afterlives in the writing of Miraji, the Urdu modernist poet. Patel claims that, through a representative, translational essay on Sappho, Miraji indirectly addresses a colonial...

... Hindi literature as a new linguistic register. 9 Furthermore, close analysis of his works shows the importance of reading Muktibodh at the local level of his own career in Central India, as it reveals the importance of the networks of writers across Hindi, Urdu, and Marathi in this region...

... . Print . Pratt Mary Louise . Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation . 2nd ed. New York : Routledge , 2008 . Print . Prendergast Christopher , ed. Debating World Literature . London : Verso , 2004 . Print . Pritchett Frances . “A Long History of Urdu...

..., and Urdu—as those interests were defined in the wake of 9/11. 16 Whether these programs are themselves boom drivers, the parallel growth of government funding and popular literature should alert us to the possible existence of a larger geopolitical interest that exerts pressure on both. When...

... whose language —​Dutch in one instance, Urdu in the other —​the anonymous fictional interlocutor does not speak: “Puis-je, monsieur, vous proposer mes services, sans risquer d’être impor- tun?” (Chute 7; “My good sir, I wonder if I might venture to offer you some help?” Fall 3); “Excuse me, sir...

... Russian Literature about the Poor . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2001 . Husain Ali Akbar . Scent in the Islamic Garden: A Study of Literary Sources in Persian and Urdu . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . İhsanoğlu Ekmeleddin . “ The Introduction...

..., from the purity of Lucknow Urdu to the Southern slurrings of Tamil. I under- stood only a fraction of the things being said within the walls of my skull. Only later, when I began to probe, did I learn that below the surface...

... responsibility to literatures of the non-West. The question is: How should English literatures of South Asia or East Africa, for example, be contextualized in terms of relevant subcontinental and regional literatures in other languages? Should texts originally written in Urdu, Swahili, or Arabic...

... the other. This, in retrospect, was my attempt to liberate the shosetsu and other peripheral narrative forms such as the Chinese, Arab, or Urdu narratives from metropolitan literary domination. I liked to indulge my- self by fantasying that, as a written text, the novel—begun in the West nearly...

... for whom Urdu is the language of love and poetry, may be stumped if asked to use it in his office. This is a consciousness that is neither cosmopolitan nor even properly multilingual, in the Western sense. A linguistic persona of this kind is fundamentally different from one that is molded...

... or English, or Icelandic, Urdu or Malinke, that wouldn’t alter the fundamental issue of linguistic/cultural range and “biodiversity,” so to speak. 4 Saussy makes another interesting point about Meltzl’s selection when he remarks that “The inclusion of Hungarian in an otherwise unremarkable list opens...

... colonialism played in inventing the vernaculars of “Hindi” (purged of Arabic and Persian influences) and “Hindustani,” from which modern Hindi and Urdu, respectively, descend (see 117–30 ). We hear it too, in a different key, in Moradewun Adejunmobi’s Vernacular Palaver , which assumes the locality...

... with cultures that have much more established ties to Islam (mainly Urdu, Turkish, and Persian). 22 My analysis focuses on the form of the ghazal , which generates its aesthetic in the Diván following the interplay between religion and love poetry for which Islamic mysticism is known. 23 The work...