LEADER 04487nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910815621303321 005 20230823223304.0 010 $a1-4008-4668-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400846689 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330149 035 $a(EBL)1084825 035 $a(OCoLC)845248024 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000820227 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11411540 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820227 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10857958 035 $a(PQKB)10720594 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1084825 035 $a(OCoLC)828736045 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43456 035 $a(DE-B1597)453880 035 $a(OCoLC)956876571 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400846689 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1084825 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10648946 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436385 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330149 100 $a20120625d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe pity of partition $eManto's life, times, and work across the India-Pakistan divide /$fAyesha Jalal 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2013. 210 4$aŠ2013 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) 225 0 $aThe Lawrence Stone Lectures ;$v3 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-15362-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrelude: Manto and Partition -- I. Stories -- "Knives, Daggers, and Bullets Cannot Destroy Religion" -- Amritsar Dreams of Revolution -- Bombay : Challenges and Opportunities -- II. Memories -- Remembering Partition -- From Cinema City to Conquering Air Waves -- Living and Walking Bombay -- III. Histories -- Partition : Neither End nor Beginning -- On the Postcolonial Moment -- Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War -- Epilogue: "A Nail's Debt" : Manto Lives On ... 330 $aSaadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, and his fiction serves as a lens through which the tragedy of partition is brought sharply into focus. In The Pity of Partition, Manto's life and work serve as a prism to capture the human dimension of sectarian conflict in the final decades and immediate aftermath of the British raj. Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate history of partition and its devastating toll. Probing the creative tension between literature and history, she charts a new way of reconnecting the histories of individuals, families, and communities in the throes of cataclysmic change. Jalal brings to life the people, locales, and events that inspired Manto's fiction, which is characterized by an eye for detail, a measure of wit and irreverence, and elements of suspense and surprise. In turn, she mines these writings for fresh insights into everyday cosmopolitanism in Bombay and Lahore, the experience and causes of partition, the postcolonial transition, and the advent of the Cold War in South Asia. The first in-depth look in English at this influential literary figure, The Pity of Partition demonstrates the revelatory power of art in times of great historical rupture. 410 4$aThe Lawrence Stone Lectures 606 $aIndia-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949 606 $aAuthors, Urdu$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aShort stories, Urdu$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xPolitical aspects$zSouth Asia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aIndia$xHistory$yPartition, 1947 607 $aSouth Asia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSouth Asia$xIn literature 615 0$aIndia-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949. 615 0$aAuthors, Urdu 615 0$aShort stories, Urdu$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a891.4/3936 700 $aJalal$b Ayesha$0500607 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815621303321 996 $aThe pity of partition$94028618 997 $aUNINA