Qurratulain Hyder on the Move : Crossing the Frontiers of Gender, Language, and Nation /

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 reportag...

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Main Author: Hyder, Syed Akbar (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia ; 3.

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Call Number: DS501

Table of Contents:
  • 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 Ġhālib
  • 3 Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Religious Reform
  • 4 Iqbal and the Harjāʾī '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 Āg kā Daryā (1959)
  • 10 Conclusion
  • 2 Hyder's London and Reflections of Home
  • 1 "London Letter"
  • 2 Revisiting "London Letter" in "La Ronde"
  • 3 "Siñghārdān": 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 ʿĀlam Āshob
  • 1 Locating the ʿĀlam Āshob within the Marṡiyah
  • 2 The Vision of the ʿĀlam Āshob : Death to the Narrator, Long Live the Witnesses
  • 3 Intertexts of the ʿĀlam Āshob
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Epilogue: From a Spark to a Constellation
  • Bibliography
  • Index.