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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Khan, Maryam Wasif (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
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