Zain R Mian
Biographic Data
| ID | 10073215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zain R Mian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zain R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mian |
| SIGNATURE | MIAN Z R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9010-8069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Muhammad Hasan Askari
This chapter reads Jazīre, a notable short-story collection by the canonical Urdu modernist Hasan Askari, against the grain to reveal the conflicting commitments of his oeuvre. Askari’s stories reveal a consistent engagement with the category of ordinary Indians, or the ‘avām, who inspire both progressive and modernist tendencies in his work. Where Askari initially deploys a self-reflexive progressivism to advocate for a more capacious representa…
Through the Lens of Urdu
This essay examines Adabī dunyā , or Literary World , to argue for a dialectical relationship between world literature and the Urdu magazine. Adabī dunyā carved a niche for itself in a competitive Indian magazine ecology by positioning itself as a worldly and world-class magazine in terms of its content and material form. How this publication circulated world literature was inspired by the educational impetus of the ‘ ilmī o adabī magazine genre …
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The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Muhammad Hasan Askari
This chapter reads Jazīre, a notable short-story collection by the canonical Urdu modernist Hasan Askari, against the grain to reveal the conflicting commitments of his oeuvre. Askari’s stories reveal a consistent engagement with the category of ordinary Indians, or the ‘avām, who inspire both progressive and modernist tendencies in his work. Where Askari initially deploys a self-reflexive progressivism to advocate for a more capacious representa…
Through the Lens of Urdu
This essay examines Adabī dunyā , or Literary World , to argue for a dialectical relationship between world literature and the Urdu magazine. Adabī dunyā carved a niche for itself in a competitive Indian magazine ecology by positioning itself as a worldly and world-class magazine in terms of its content and material form. How this publication circulated world literature was inspired by the educational impetus of the ‘ ilmī o adabī magazine genre …
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Dialectic (1 work)