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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458730503321

Autore

Pue A. Sean <1975->

Titolo

I too have some dreams : N.M. Rashed and modernism in Urdu poetry / / A. Sean Pue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-95893-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

South Asia Across the Disciplines

Disciplina

891.4/3916

Soggetti

Urdu poetry - History and criticism

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.