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Frances Pritchetts lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry--long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture--became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent Indian Mutiny of 1857. She uses the lives and writings of the distinguished poets and critics Azad and Hali to show the disastrous consequences--culturally and politically--of British rule. The British had science, urban planning--and Wordsworth. Azad and Hali had a discredited culture and a metaphysical, sexually ambiguous poetry that differed radically from English lyric forms.Pritchetts beautiful reconstruction of the classical Urdu poetic vision allows us to understand one of the worlds richest literary traditions and also highlights the damaging potential of colonialism.
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Urdu literature--History and criticism, Azad, Muhammad Husain,--ca. 1834-1910--Criticism and interpretation, Hali, _K_hvajah Altaf Husain,--1837-1914--Criticism and interpretation.
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1994
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PK2151.P75 1994eb
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891.439
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Urdu literature--History and criticism, Azad, Muhammad Husain,--ca. 1834-1910--Criticism and interpretation, Hali, _K_hvajah Altaf Husain,--1837-1914--Criticism and interpretation.
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Nets of Awareness
Poetry and Its Critics
Frances W. Pritchett
University of California Press BERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON
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University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd. London, England
1994 by The Regents of the University of California
The Urdu calligraphic designs based on the words agahi ("awareness") and dam ("net") were done by Adil Mansuri, an artist/calligrapher and poet from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, who now lives in New Jersey.
The calligraphy on p. v is from the edition of Ghalib's* Divan-eGhalib* edited by Hamid* 'Ali Khan* (Lahore: Punjab University, 1969).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pritchett, Frances W., 1947 Nets of awareness: Urdu poetry and its critics / by Frances W. Pritchett. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-08194-3 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-520-08386-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Urdu literatureHistory and criticism. 2. Azad, Muhammad* Husain*, ca. 1834-1910Criticism and interpretation. 3. Hali*, Kh vajah* Altaf* Husain*, 1837-1914Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PK2151.P75 199492-43826 CIP
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No matter how awareness spreads its net, My realm of words shelters the imaginary bird. GHALIB*
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