The Dissident Voice: The Poems of N.M. Rashed (Oxford India Paperbacks) - Softcover

Habib, M. A. R.; Rashid, N. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195627415 ISBN 13: 9780195627411

Verlag: Oxford Univ Pr, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

One of the major modern poets of the Urdu language in the twentieth century, N.M. Rashed lived and wrote at a time of tremendous upheaval both within and outside the Islamic world--the period between the two World Wars. Viewed as anarchic for his passionate defense of democracy and individualism, Rashed was responsible for spearheading a modernist movement in Urdu literature. His many critics failed to see that his apparent religious heterodoxy was itself a version of faith, often reflected in his verse as an intense, if tragic, spiritual struggle expressed in earthly terms. Attacking a tradition while remaining within it, Rashed turned the ghazal, primarily a love lyric and itself a subversive verse form, into a powerful weapon of protest. A composite picture of the world and works of Rashed is presented here for the first time in English translation with poems drawn from various collections of his verse.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford Univ Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195627415
• ISBN 13: 9780195627411
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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