Qurratulain Hyder on the Move

Crossing the Frontiers of Gender, Language, and Nation
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69550-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 22 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

Reihe: Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia

In a career spanning seven decades, Qurratulain Hyder (1927–2007) achieved distinction as a novelist, journalist, translator, and innovator in Urdu literature. To shed new light on this multilingual itinerant woman with a curatorial eye, the present study turns to Hyder’s genre-bending reportage writing, which has not yet garnered the same scholarly attention as her majestic novels and short stories. At once autobiographical, admonitory, journalistic, and lyrical, these reportages offer glimpses of Hyder’s multigenerational erudition, artistry, and mastery of Perso-Urdu poetic aesthetics, as well as the challenges she faced when breaking from histories freighted by patriarchal, colonial, and nationalist enterprises.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akbar Hyder, Syed

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction

1 Qurratulain Hyder’s Third Eye: From a Meeting to a Study

2 Structure of the Book

1 The Dance of a Spark

1 Hyder’s Upbringing, Family Legacy, and Colonial Context

2 The All-Conquering Ghalib

3 Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Religious Reform

4 Iqbal and the Harja?i’s Journey

5 Women in Hyder’s World of Words

6 Defying “Divided Loyalties” of Religion and Language

7 Hyder Enters the Literary Stage

8 Partition and Move to Pakistan (1947–1959)

9 Ag ka Darya (1959)

10 Conclusion

2 Hyder’s London and Reflections of Home

1 “London Letter”

2 Revisiting “London Letter” in “La Ronde”

3 “Siñghardan”: Reflecting on London and Loss

4 Conclusion

3 When the Prisoners Were Freed, Times Had Changed

1 The Andaman Islands, ca. early 1930s

2 Karachi, ca.1957

3 Delhi, 1959

4 Calcutta, 1961

5 Context and Analysis

6 Conclusion: Hyder and the Changing Times

4 Tumult Rises in the Prison: An ?Alam Ashob

1 Locating the ?Alam Ashob within the Mar?iyah

2 The Vision of the ?Alam Ashob: Death to the Narrator, Long Live the Witnesses

3 Intertexts of the ?Alam Ashob

4 Conclusion

Epilogue: From a Spark to a Constellation

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Syed Akbar Hyder, Ph.D. (2000), Harvard University, is Director of the South Asia Institute and Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).