The Two-Sided Canvas

Perspectives on Ahmed Ali
Herausgeber: Farooqi, Mehr Afshan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Poet, critic, translator, scholar, and pre-eminent novelist, Ahmed Ali (1910-1994) is best known for his deeply-moving portrait of Delhi, Twilight in Delhi (1940). This volume brings together essays which provide current critical insights into Ali's work, life, and socio-cultural milieu.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 143mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780198077954
• ISBN-10: 0198077955
• Artikelnr.: 36649404

Autorenporträt

Mehr Afshan Farooqi is Assistant Professor of Urdu in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the editor of the two-volume Oxford India Anthology of Urdu Literature (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 'Truth of Fictions' by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
* 'A Novel by Ahmed Ali' by Muhammad Hasan Askari
* 'Language Crossings: Dilli to Delhi through the World of Ahmed Ali'
by Mehr Afshan Farooqi
* 'Ahmed Ali: Highlights from an Interview' by Carlo Coppola
* 'Evening, Twilight, then Night: The Short Fiction of Ahmed Ali' by
Carlo Coppola
* 'Translation as Contemporary Quranic Exegesis: Ahmed Ali and Muslim
Modernism' by Ahmed H. al Rahim
* 'Lavish Weddings and Nostalgic Delhis: Anti-Colonial Aesthetics in
Ahmed Ali's Fiction' by Snehal Shingavi
* 'Ahmed Ali Chronology'
* FROM OUP ARCHIVES AND ALIANA: 'English in South Asia: A Historical
Perspective'; 'In Defense of Angarey'; 'Dust Jacket of Twilight in
Delhi'; 'Letter from Hogarth Press'; 'Reviews of First Edition of
Twilight in Delhi'
* PHOTO ARCHIVE