Who is a Muslim? : orientalism and literary populisms /
Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, natio...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2021.
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Edición: | First edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- WHO IS A MUSLIM?
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction. Who Is a Muslim?
- 1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale
- 2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony
- 3 Nation/Qaum: The "Musalmans" of India
- 4 Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel
- 5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel
- Epilogue. Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index