Poetry of Belonging
«Poetry of Belonging interlaces, in a scholarly and readable fashion,many critical conversations spanning various disciplines, including history, religious studies and literary studies, to tell complicated stories of Muslims' conceptions of being and belonging in South Asia between 1850-1950....Mahmudabad ends his book not in his own words but with Mahbub's couplet : "I will gather twigs once again from this garden to build my nest/ For my home was set ablaze and I have all the time in the world." This endearing choice—to give the last word to a poet—captures well the genuine love for poetry that radiates throughout the book.»
Abdul Manan Bhat, University of Pennsylvania, The Marginalia Review of Books
This book examines facets of North Indian Muslim identity c. 1850-1950. It focuses specifically on the role of literature and poetry as the medium through which certain Muslim 'voices' articulated, negotiated, configured and expressed their understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian, given the socio-political exigencies of the time. Les mer
mushairah (poetic symposium) over this period. In doing so it will analyse the multiple ways in which this space adapted to the changing economic, social, political and technological contexts of the time. The second half of the book will present a history of the ideas that were often articulated in the
space of the mushairah and changing notions of the watan (homeland) amongst various Muslim individuals will be analysed. In particular the book will seek to locate changing ideas of hubb-e watan? (patriotism) in order to offer new perspectives on how Muslim intellectuals, poets, political leaders and journalists conceived of and expressed their relationship to India and to the trans-national Muslim community.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- OUP India
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780190121013
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«Poetry of Belonging interlaces, in a scholarly and readable fashion,many critical conversations spanning various disciplines, including history, religious studies and literary studies, to tell complicated stories of Muslims' conceptions of being and belonging in South Asia between 1850-1950....Mahmudabad ends his book not in his own words but with Mahbub's couplet : "I will gather twigs once again from this garden to build my nest/ For my home was set ablaze and I have all the time in the world." This endearing choice—to give the last word to a poet—captures well the genuine love for poetry that radiates throughout the book.»
Abdul Manan Bhat, University of Pennsylvania, The Marginalia Review of Books