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Hidden Histories of Pakistan Censorship Literature and Secular Nationalism by Sarah Fatima Waheed
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Subject:Asia / India & South Asia, Linguistics / GeneralNumber of Pages:309 PagesItem Height:0.7 inIntended Audience:College AudienceAuthor:Sarah Fatima WaheedLCCN:2021-036403Illustrated:YesSubject Area:Language Arts & Disciplines, HistoryISBN-13:9781108995160Format:Trade PaperbackTable Of Content:Preface; 1. Introduction: Writers on trail; 2. Blasphemy: Progressives, literary ethics, and the case of burning embers; 3. Obscenity: Manto's texts, Manto's trials; 4. Sedition: A poet, a plot, and Pakistan's first conspiracy case; 5. Feminist literary ethics and censorship; Epilogue.Publisher:Cambridge University PressLanguage:EnglishPublication Year:2024Item Width:6 inType:TextbookPublication Name:Hidden Histories of Pakistan : Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial Indiabrand:Cambridge University PressSynopsis:A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers deeper understanding of India and Pakistan's complex and intertwined history through explorations of censorship, Urdu literature and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan., Censorship, Urdu literature, Islam, and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan have a complex, intertwined history. Sarah Waheed offers a timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. She delves into how these left-leaning intellectuals drew from long-standing literary traditions of Islam in a period of great duress and upheaval, complicating our understanding of the relationship between religion and secularism. Rather than seeing 'religion' and 'the secular' as distinct and oppositional phenomena, this book demonstrates how these concepts themselves were historically produced in South Asia and were deeply interconnected in the cultural politics of the left. Through a detailed analysis of trials for blasphemy, obscenity, and sedition, and feminist writers, Waheed argues that Muslim intellectuals engaged with socialism and communism through their distinctive ethical and cultural past. In so doing, she provides a fresh perspective on the creation of Pakistan and South Asian modernity.Dewey Decimal:891.4/39gtin13:9781108995160LC Classification Number:PK2160.P64W34 2021ISBN-10:1108995160Reviews:'Waheed innovatively uses the court battles of the Urdu progressive writers, across the partition divide, to reorient historical interpretations of the role of the left in conceptualizing the creation of Pakistan. She shows compellingly how the influence of these writers - and the controversies they engendered - was shaped by their deep engagement with Indo-Persian ethics, as much as by leftist internationalism.' David Gilmartin, North Carolina State UniversityItem Length:9 inDewey Edition:23
This book completely changed my perspective on colonial India's literary scene. A truly eye-opening and essential read for anyone interested in the region's complex cultural history.
This book completely changed my perspective on colonial India's literary scene. A truly eye-opening and essential read for anyone interested in the region's complex cultural history.