Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.
Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.
Maryam Wasif Khan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS University, Lahore.
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Note on Transliteration ix Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? 1 1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale 21 2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony 53 3 Nation/Qaum: The Musalmans of India 87 4 Martyr/Muj hid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel 126 5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel 165 Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu 209 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 225 Index 255
Note on Transliteration ix Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? 1 1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale 21 2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony 53 3 Nation/Qaum: The Musalmans of India 87 4 Martyr/Muj hid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel 126 5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel 165 Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu 209 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 225 Index 255
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