I Too Have Some Dreams - N.M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-520-28310-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: South Asia Across the Disciplines

I Too Have Some Dreams explores the work of N. M. Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India and the early decades of postcolonial South Asia. A. Sean Pue argues that Rashed’s poetry carved out a distinct role for literature in the maintenance of doubt, providing a platform for challenging the certainty of collective ideologies and opposing the evolving forms of empire and domination. This finely crafted study offers a timely contribution to global modernist studies and to modern South Asian literary history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pue, A. Sean

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

1. Embodiment

2. Position Without Identity

3. Allegory and Collectivity

4. Temporality

Conclusion: Hasan the Potter

Appendix: Poems in Transliteration and Translation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

A. Sean Pue is Associate Professor of Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture at Michigan State University.