Pity of Partition - Manto''s Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide

Zusatztext "This is a highly readable book. . . . The result is an amazingly informative, even-handed, and lifelike portrait of the great writer." ---Ishtiaq Ahmed, Pacific Affairs Informationen zum Autor Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. Her books include Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia ! Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850 ! and The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah! the Muslim League! and the Demand for Pakistan . Klappentext Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, an Zusammenfassung Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, an Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Prelude: Manto and Partition 1 I Stories 17 1 "Knives! Daggers! and Bullets Cannot Destroy Religion" 19 2 Amritsar Dreams of Revolution 29 3 Bombay: Challenges and Opportunities 55 II Memories 83 1 Remembering Partition 85 2 From Cinema City to Conquering Air Waves 91 3 Living and Walking Bombay 111 III Histories 139 1 Partition: Neither End nor Beginning 141 2 On the Postcolonial Moment 151 3 Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War 187 Epilogue: "A Nail's Debt": Manto Lives On 211 Notes 229 Select Bibliography 245 Index 249

Product details

• Authors: Ayesha Jalal, Jalal Ayesha
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2013
• EAN: 9780691153629
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15362-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 225 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Lawrence Stone Lectures; The Lawrence Stone Lectures
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Pakistan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, 20th Century, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, General and world history, Biography: writers, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Asia / South / General