The Two-Sided Canvas Perspectives on Ahmed Ali
ISBN: 9780198077954 | 0198077955
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/1/2013
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Poet, critic, translator, scholar, and pre-eminent novelist, Ahmed Ali (1910-1994) is best known for his deeply-moving portrait of Delhi, Twilight in Delhi (1940). This volume brings together essays which provide current critical insights into Ali's work, life, and socio-cultural milieu.
Ahmed Ali (1910-1994), multitalented, bilingual writer, poet, scholar, translator, critic, and anthologist, is one of the stalwarts in the South Asian literary sphere. A founder of the All India Progressive Writer's Association (AI... MORE
Ahmed Ali (1910-1994), multitalented, bilingual writer, poet, scholar, translator, critic, and anthologist, is one of the stalwarts in the South Asian literary sphere. A founder of the All India Progressive Writer's Association (AI... MORE
Introduction
'Truth of Fictions' by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
'A Novel by Ahmed Ali' by Muhammad Hasan Askari
'Language Crossings: Dilli to Delhi through the World of Ahmed Ali' by Mehr Afshan Farooqi
'Ahmed Ali: Highlights from an Interview' by Carlo Coppola
'Evening, Twilight, then Night: The Short Fiction of Ahmed Ali' by Carlo Coppola
'Translation as Contemporary Quranic Exegesis: Ahmed Ali and Muslim Modern... MORE
'Lavish Weddings and Nostalgic Delhis: Anti-Colonial Aesthetics in Ahmed Ali's Fiction' by Snehal Shingavi
'Ahmed Ali Chronology'
FROM OUP ARCHIVES AND ALIANA: 'English in South Asia: A Historical Perspective'; 'In Defense of Angarey'; 'Dust Jacket of Twilight in Delhi'; 'Letter from Hogarth Press'; 'Reviews of First Edition of Twilight in Delhi'
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Mehr Afshan Farooqi is Assistant Professor of Urdu in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the editor of the two-volume Oxford India Anthology of Urdu Literature (2010).
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