Download or read book The Oxford Book of Urdu Short Stories written by Amina Azfar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the best Urdu short stories, from the earliest to contemporary works, come together in this anthology; all in brand new translations. Some of the stories included here are available in different anthologies in other translations, but there are also several that have been translated for the first time, specifically for this volume. The book demonstrates the range of the genre in Urdu.
Download or read book Modern Urdu Short Stories from Pakistan written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together English translations of twenty-six Urdu short stories by mostly renowned Pakistani writers. All the stories were written between 1947 and the present time. Authors range from the celebrated Saadat Hasan Manto to Dr Shershah Syed and Mehmood Zafar. Not all of these stories are necessarily the most famous works of their authors, and most of them have not been translated into English before. However, their exquisite depiction of diverse experiences and social realities justifies calling them unforgettable gems of Urdu short story writing. Selected and translated by Amina Azfar, these stories will delight the general reader and will also be found useful by students and scholars studying South Asian literature, culture, and history.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories written by Mohammad Asaduddin and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Barely A Hundred Years Old, The Urdu Short Story, Or Afsana', Has Established Itself At The Forefront Of Urdu Literature. Emerging As A Discrete Narrative Genre With Munshi Premchand, It Gained Momentum With The Progressive Writers' Movement In The 1930S. The Partition Of The Subcontinent In 1947 Introduced New Dynamics Into The Genre As Writers Grappled With Emerging Trends Of Modernism And Symbolism As Well As With A Depleted Readership In India And The Challenge Of Establishing A New Literary Tradition Commensurate With A New Nationhood In Pakistan. The Penguin Book Of Classic Urdu Stories Brings Together Sixteen Memorable Tales That Have Influenced Generations Of Readers. From Saadat Hasan Manto'S Immortal Partition Narrative Toba Tek Singh' And The Harrowing Realism Of Premchand'S The Shroud' To The Whimsical Strains Of Qurratulain Hyder'S Confessions Of St Flora Of Georgia' And The Daring Experimentation Of Khalida Husain'S Millipede', This Definitive Collection Represents The Best Of Short Fiction In Urdu. In The Process, It Provides A Glimpse Of The Works Of Acclaimed Masters On Both Sides Of The Border Ismat Chughtai And Ashfaq Ahmad, Rajinder Singh Bedi And Intizar Husain, Krishan Chander And Hasan Manzar, Naiyer Masud And Ikramullah.
Download or read book Breakthrough written by Sukrita Paul Kumar and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Urdu Short Stories written by Madan Gupta and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Harpercollins Book of Urdu Short Stories written by Muhammad Umar Memon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection Of Urdu Stories By Some Of The Finest And Most Renowned Writers Of The Language Today - Including Naiyer Masud, Balraj Manra, Jeelani Bano And Intizar Husain - Brought To The English Reader In Accurate, Modern Translations. With Originality And Poetic Grace, These Stories Lead Us Into A World Shaped By Islamic And Indian Sub Continental Traditions, Revealing An Imagination Hovering Upon The Mystical And The Romantic, The Traditional And The Modern, The Social And The Political. Ultimately, They Testify To The Depth Of The Human Spirit Ad They Reflect Upon Its Mysteries. An Informative Preface By Muhammad Umar Memon Sets The Scene For A Power Anthology Of A Vibrant And Tenacious Literary Tradition.
Download or read book The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature written by Mehr Afshan Farooqi and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering 100 years of literary production, this volume includes poems, essays and sketches, autobiography, drama, humour and satire, and letters by some of the leading lights of modern Urdu literature. The volume also includes interesting anecdotes on well-known literary personages like Ghalib.
Download or read book Contemporary Urdu Short Stories written by Jai Ratan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Colour of Nothingness written by Muhammad Umar Memon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen striking stories from one of the richest literary storehouses of the subcontinent. Complex, audacious, and strongly individualistic, the stories in this selection underline the originality and power of the modern Urdu short story. From Qurratulain Hyder to Enver Sajjad, these are stories that dazzle with their wit, brilliance, and intelligence.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories written by Stephen Alter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty classic short stories from master writers across the country This superb collection contains some of the best Indian short stories written in the last fifty years, both in English and in the regional languages. Some of these stories – ‘We Have Arrived in Amritsar’ by Bhisham Sahni, ‘Companions’ by Raja Rao, ‘The Sky and the Cat’ by U.R. Anantha Murthy, ‘A Devoted Son’ by Anita Desai – have been widely anthologized and are well known. Others, like Premendra Mitra’s ‘The Discovery of Telenapota’, Gangadhar Gadgil’s ‘The Dog that Ran in Circles’, Mowni’s ‘A Loss of Identity’, O.V. Vijayan’s ‘The Wart’ and Devanuru Mahadeva’s ‘Amasa’, are less familiar to readers but are nevertheless classics of the art of the short story. This new and revised edition includes three additional classics: R.K. Narayan’s ‘Another Community’, Avinash Dolas’s ‘The Victim’ and Ismat Chughtai’s ‘The Wedding Shroud’. The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories is a marvellous and entertaining introduction to the rich diversity of pleasures that the Indian short story–a form that has produced masters in over a dozen languages–can offer.
Download or read book The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told written by Muhammad Umar Memon and published by Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected and translated by writer, editor and translator par excellence Muhammad Umar Memon, the twenty-five stories in this book represent the finest short fiction in Urdu literature. In his Introduction, Memon traces the evolution of the Urdu short story from its origins in the work of writers like Munshi Premchand-'the first professional short story writer in Urdu'-through the emergence of the Progressives in the late 1930s, whose writings were unabashedly political and underpinned their Marxist ideologies, to the post-Independence 'Modernist' era, and today's generation of avant-garde, experimental writers of Urdu fiction. Every story in the anthology illustrates one or the other facet of the form in the Urdu literary tradition. But even more than for their formal technique and inventiveness, these stories have been included because of their power and impact on the reader. Death and poverty face off in Premchand's masterpiece
Download or read book The Quilt and Other Stories written by Ismat Chughtai and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noveller.
Download or read book Selected Stories written by Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Truth Tales written by Kali for Women (Organization) and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Â Â Â The rich popular tradition of India's women writers is finally available in this collection of short stories translated from seven of the country's languages. The writers and their heroines reflect the complex mosaic of Indian life-they are old and young, rural and urban, rich and poor. Here we meet Muniyakka, called "walkie-talkie" because she mutters to herself; Shakun, the dollmaker, an exploited artist who needs to feel that others depend on her; and Jashoda, professional mother to children of the rich, from Mahasveta Devi's acknowledged masterpiece "The Wet Nurse." These stories "are dense with thsoe customs, manners, and objects that usually remain locked within regional languages," wrote Anita Desai in the New York Review ofBooks . Meena Alexander's thoughtful introduction places the stories and the writers in the context of modern India.
Download or read book Glimpses of Modern Urdu Literature written by Madan Lall Manchanda and published by K.K. Publications. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS Forward............................................................................. vii A Word................................................................................. x Acknowledgment............................................................... xi 1. Hindi-Urdu — The Two Sister Languages....................... 1 2. Amir Khusrau’s Crusade for Integration.......................... 7 3. Love of the Land in Poetry............................................ 10 4. Rainy Season in Urdu Poetry......................................... 16 5. Ghazal Back in Popular Favour...................................... 19 6. Development of Urdu Drama......................................... 21 7. ‘Inshia Nigari’ - The Art of Urdu Essay Writing............ 26 8. Urdu Literature And Contemporary Knowledge........... 30 Modern Era Heraladed by Ghalib 9. Humorous Interpretation of Ghalib................................ 37 10. Ghalib and Zauq – The Incomparable Rivals.............. 43 Precursors of New Age in Urdu Poetry 11. Poet who Gave Urdu Its First Lady Love................... 49 12. Ehasan Daanish – The Poet of the Oppressed............. 53 New Age in Urdu Poetry 13. Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poetry marks the dawn of New Age in Urdy poetry............................................................. 59 Nationalistic Trends in Urdu Poetry 14. Josh Maleehabadi – The Poet of Revolution............... 65 15. Saghar Nizami – A National Poet................................ 69 Expanding Vistas of Ghazal 16. Firaq’s Impact on Urdu Poetry.................................... 75 Restoring Ghazals to Classical Perfection 17. Jigar Moradabadi – The Staunch Traditionalist........... 81 18. Naresh Kumar Shad - The Progressive Traditionalist.. 85 Expression of Socio-Political Urges of Time 19. Kaifi Azmi — The Red Rose of Urdu Poetry............. 91 20. Sahir Ludhianvi — Poet and Thinker.......................... 97 21. Sahir and the Nuclear Holocaust............................... 100 The Esoteric Intellectualism 22. Salam Machleeshahri – An Enthralling Lyricist........ 105 23. Krishan Mohan’s Poetry – A Glow of Intellectualism 109 Epoch Making Era of Urdu Short Story 24. Story of Story – An Encounter with P.N. Dar.......... 117 25. Krishan Chander and his art – Socialistic Realism in Urdu Short Story 123 26. A Writer With a Difference....................................... 127 27. Rambler in Urdu Fiction............................................ 130 Other Articles of the Author on Contemporary Trends of Literature 28. Where Criticism Fails ................................................ 137 29. Love is the Eternal Passion........................................ 140 30. Story Spinner............................................................. 143 31. Alley Pictures............................................................. 145
Download or read book Who Is a Muslim written by Maryam Wasif Khan and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.
Download or read book The Sound of Falling Leaves written by Qurratulʻain Ḥaidar and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection Of The Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Short Stories By Qurratulain Hyder, One Of The Most Celebrated And Accomplished Contemporary Writers Of Urdu Fiction.She Received The Sahitya Akademi Award In 1968 For The Collection Of Her Stories Titled Patjhar Ki Awaz, Urdu.
