Hidden Histories of Pakistan - Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India

Examines the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement through the lens of censorship.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Sarah Fatima Waheed is Assistant Professor of History at Davidson College, North Carolina, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Fatima Waheed, Sarah Fatima (Davidson College Waheed
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2024
• EAN: 9781108995160
• ISBN: 978-1-108-99516-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 451 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Asia / General, Asian History