Maryam Wasif Khan

Who Is a Muslim? (eBook, PDF)

Orientalism and Literary Populisms

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Produktbeschreibung

Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations 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 "e;Who is a Muslim?,"e; a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823290154
• Artikelnr.: 72425089

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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