Maryam Wasif Khan

Who Is a Muslim?

Orientalism and Literary Populisms

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Produktbeschreibung

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, national identity, and citizenship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780823290130
• ISBN-10: 0823290131
• Artikelnr.: 60158781

Autorenporträt

Maryam Wasif Khan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS University, Lahore.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Transliteration ix Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? 1 1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale 21 2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony 53 3 Nation/Qaum: The
Musalmans
of India 87 4 Martyr/Muj
hid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel 126 5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel 165 Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu 209 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 225 Index 255