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Lyrical movements, historical hauntings : on gender, colonialism, and desire in Miraji's Urdu poetry /Geeta Patel

By: Geeta PatelContributor(s): Geeta PatelMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Technical Bureau India Private Limited | E/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhi-110052Publication details: New Delhi :Manohar Publishing House ,2005Description: xiii, 470 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9788173046520Subject(s): LiteratureGenre/Form: Mīrājī, -- 1912-1949 -- Criticism and interpretation.DDC classification: 891.439 PAT

Contents:

Beginnings -- Introduction: Journey Toward Miraji -- Stories from a Childhood -- Literary Movements: Margins and Centers -- The Terms of the Encounter: Miraji and the Progressive Writers' Association -- Miraji's Response to the Progressives -- Self, Language, and Masculinity -- Epigram for Longing Souls and Compelled Bodies: Whither Masculinity? -- In Illumined Shadows: Reading "Traveler" -- Naming the Lyrical -- What's in a Name? -- Reading Gender, Charting the Obscure -- Epilogue: Entrances to Life and Death -- Beveled Glass: Selected Translations -- Working Translations: Essays, Prose Musings, Miscellaneous Poems

Summary: This is one of the first books in any language on the life and work of Miraji (1912-49), a member of the triumvirate of canonical Urdu poets of the twentieth century. Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings aims to unravel the paradox of an acclaimed modernist writer whose poems are widely regarded as impossibly difficult to comprehend. It also grapples with the vexed issue of how to speak of a Muslim male poet who wrote under a Hindu woman's name, and whom contemporary critics described as mad, sexually perverse, and a voyeur." "Miraji's short life spanned the final period of British colonialism in South Asia, and his work played a part in the nationalist struggle.

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Beginnings --
Introduction: Journey Toward Miraji --
Stories from a Childhood --
Literary Movements: Margins and Centers --
The Terms of the Encounter: Miraji and the Progressive Writers' Association --
Miraji's Response to the Progressives --
Self, Language, and Masculinity --
Epigram for Longing Souls and Compelled Bodies: Whither Masculinity? --
In Illumined Shadows: Reading "Traveler" --
Naming the Lyrical --
What's in a Name? --
Reading Gender, Charting the Obscure --
Epilogue: Entrances to Life and Death --
Beveled Glass: Selected Translations --
Working Translations: Essays, Prose Musings, Miscellaneous Poems

This is one of the first books in any language on the life and work of Miraji (1912-49), a member of the triumvirate of canonical Urdu poets of the twentieth century. Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings aims to unravel the paradox of an acclaimed modernist writer whose poems are widely regarded as impossibly difficult to comprehend. It also grapples with the vexed issue of how to speak of a Muslim male poet who wrote under a Hindu woman's name, and whom contemporary critics described as mad, sexually perverse, and a voyeur." "Miraji's short life spanned the final period of British colonialism in South Asia, and his work played a part in the nationalist struggle.

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