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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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia ;
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Call Number: DS501
- 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.