The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature: Poetry and Prose Miscellany

by Mehr Afshan Farooqi (Editor)

Paperback, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

891.439

Genres

Collection

Publication

Oxford University Press (2010), Edition: 1, Paperback, 380 pages

Description

The [Oxford India] Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature: Fiction spans a period of almost one and a half century, and includes the writings of some of the most representative figures in modern Urdu literature. Apart from offering a judicious selection of a vast number of writers starting fromMuhammad Hadi Rusva and Rashidul Khairi in the mid-nineteenth century, and Premchand and Hijab Imtiaz Ali in the early twentieth to Salam Bin Razak and Syed Muhammad Ashraf in the late twentieth centuries, the anthology includes within its fold short stories as well as extracts from novels andnovellas.The chronological listing of works by authors enables the readers to develop a sense of evolution of various genres and sub-genres across the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries while savouring this veritable feast of material. The post-Partition selection of writers includes authors from bothIndia and Pakistan, thus giving a holistic picture of modern Urdu literature as it developed in the two countries after 1947. The volume begins with Muhammad Hadi Ruswa (1857-1931), then features such celebrated practitioners of the genre as Premchand, Ghulam Abbas, Krishan Chander, Rajinder SinghBedi, Intizar Husain, Qurratulain Hyder, Abdullah Hussein, Naiyer Masud, and finally ends with Syed Muhammad Ashraf (1957-).This anthology will appeal equally to general readers, as well as students and scholars of literature in general and Urdu literature in translation in particular.… (more)

Language

Original language

Urdu

Physical description

380 p.; 5.51 inches

ISBN

0198069170 / 9780198069171
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