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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ayesha JalalPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Volume: 5 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9780691153629ISBN 10: 0691153620 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 24 February 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Language: English Table of Contents"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"ReviewsTufts University historian Jalal (Partisans of Allah), a great-niece of Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955), gives readers an intimate, passionate, and insightful portrait of this brilliant but tragic man as he navigated and interpreted the repression, chaos, and violence of the final years of British colonialism and the upheaval of India's 1947 partition. The book follows Manto's life from his rebellious youth and early adulthood translating Victor Hugo and Oscar Wilde in Amritsar, Punjab, to his years as a struggling journalist and film writer in Bombay, where his provocative stories elicited numerous obscenity charges while building his reputation as 'the father of the Urdu short story' and a 'unique literary miracle destined for immortality,' and his prolific but troubled later years in postpartition Lahore, premature death at 42, and his boisterous funeral, where 'several of Manto's fictional characters were spotted in the crowd.' Publishers Weekly One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 Tufts University historian Jalal (Partisans of Allah), a great-niece of Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955), gives readers an intimate, passionate, and insightful portrait of this brilliant but tragic man as he navigated and interpreted the repression, chaos, and violence of the final years of British colonialism and the upheaval of India's 1947 partition. The book follows Manto's life from his rebellious youth and early adulthood translating Victor Hugo and Oscar Wilde in Amritsar, Punjab, to his years as a struggling journalist and film writer in Bombay, where his provocative stories elicited numerous obscenity charges while building his reputation as 'the father of the Urdu short story' and a 'unique literary miracle destined for immortality,' and his prolific but troubled later years in postpartition Lahore, premature death at 42, and his boisterous funeral, where 'several of Manto's fictional characters were spotted in the crowd.' --Publishers Weekly [A] fine introduction to Manto and his work, and his depiction of partition. --M. A. Orthofer, Complete Review Eminent historian Jalal has written a rich, engaging, at times moving account of the life of Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-55), interweaving biography with the tumultuous events of Indian nationalism, the Partition, and early Pakistan... A much-needed study of a pioneering public figure. --Choice [S]ome of the finest pictures of Manto, his wife and of his friends embellish this book. Yet, the highlight of Jalal's work is that she has not let her proximity to Manto and his family affect in any way the objectivity that such a study would demand. Her unbiased approach to presenting Manto with his failings and foibles helps a more considered understanding of the writer. --Business Standard Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-55) was a leading Urdu writer who attracted controversy in prepartition India and early postpartition Pakistan for his short stories and film scripts that dealt with sex and politics in a daring manner. Jalal, his grandniece, uses his published writings and family letters and her interviews with relatives to portray his complex relationship. Interweaving stories from his fiction and events from his life, she produces a rich ... tapestry of a complex society and the tensions that built up to the explosive violence of partition in 1947. --Foreign Affairs Jalal has performed a great service for scholars and the reading public by opening the Manto archive to their gaze. I for one will read Manto's stories, from now on, with added pleasure and comprehension. --Ian Copland, American Historical Review Tufts University historian Jalal (Partisans of Allah), a great-niece of Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955), gives readers an intimate, passionate, and insightful portrait of this brilliant but tragic man as he navigated and interpreted the repression, chaos, and violence of the final years of British colonialism and the upheaval of India's 1947 partition. The book follows Manto's life from his rebellious youth and early adulthood translating Victor Hugo and Oscar Wilde in Amritsar, Punjab, to his years as a struggling journalist and film writer in Bombay, where his provocative stories elicited numerous obscenity charges while building his reputation as 'the father of the Urdu short story' and a 'unique literary miracle destined for immortality,' and his prolific but troubled later years in postpartition Lahore, premature death at 42, and his boisterous funeral, where 'several of Manto's fictional characters were spotted in the crowd.' Publishers Weekly [A] fine introduction to Manto and his work, and his depiction of partition. -- M. A. Orthofer Complete Review Author Information"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""." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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