Jennifer Dubrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 241796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Dubrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Dubrow |
| SIGNATURE | DUBROW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Saadat Hasan Manto and the Poetics of the Urdu Short Story
This chapter argues that the preeminent Urdu short-story writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955) utilized a fundamentally poetic style in his best work. The chapter analyzes three exemplary works—the 1942 short story “Bu”; the 1948 collection of vignettes and prose poems on Partition violence, Siyah Hashiye; and the 1948 story “Khol Do”—to show how Manto reinvigorated aspects of Urdu ghazal poetry to make meaning with minimal words. In “Bu,” Manto …
Megan Eaton Robb. Print and the Urdu Public
Journal Article Megan Eaton Robb. Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India. Get access Megan Eaton Robb. Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 247. Cloth $110.00. Jennifer Dubrow Jennifer Dubrow University of Washington, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Neetu Khanna. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization . Durham, N.C
The aesthetics of the fragment
Modernism has been retheorized as a global phenomenon, through phrases such as "geomodernism" or "planetary modernism". This article considers Urdu literary modernism, as it developed in South Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. It offers new readings of canonical texts by writers connected to the All-India Progressive Writers' Association: "Khol Do" by Saadat Hasan Manto, "Subah-e Azadi" by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and "Lajwanti" by Rajinder Singh Bedi. Against…
Sharafat and Bhal Mānsī
In the late nineteenth century, the definition of sharafat, or respectability, went through great change. This essay explores these changes through Fasana-e Azad (1878–1883), an early Urdu novel. Fasana-e Azad expanded the vocabulary of sharafat, using words like bhal mānsī (the quality of being a good person) to lift respectability above religious categories. Respectability was no longer to be associated with family background, or the Islamicate…
Intimate Relations
Serial fictions
Serialisation allowed for remarkable experimentation with the new genre of the novel in colonial South Asia. The open nature of serialisation in South Asia, in which novels were not planned in advance but rather could develop and change while in progress, meant that serialised versions of novels were often more experimental than their later book editions. In this article, I use the pioneering Urdu novel Fasāna-e Āzād (1878–83) as a case study to …
A Space For Debate
The novel emerged in South Asia not as an import from Europe, but rather as the product of multiple sources and as a genre capable of fulfilling a distinct function. I argue that the novel as a genre arose in colonial India because of its ability to hold divergent points of view and to subtly critique the British government. I focus on two early Urdu novels, Nazir Ahmad's Mirāt ul-'Arūs (1869) (The Bride's Mirror) and Ratan Nath Sarshar's Fasāna-…
A Space For Debate
The novel emerged in South Asia not as an import from Europe, but rather as the product of multiple sources and as a genre capable of fulfilling a distinct function. I argue that the novel as a genre arose in colonial India because of its ability to hold divergent points of view and to subtly critique the British government. I focus on two early Urdu novels, Nazir Ahmad's Mirāt ul-'Arūs (1869) (The Bride's Mirror) and Ratan Nath Sarshar's Fasāna-…
The aesthetics of the fragment
Modernism has been retheorized as a global phenomenon, through phrases such as "geomodernism" or "planetary modernism". This article considers Urdu literary modernism, as it developed in South Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. It offers new readings of canonical texts by writers connected to the All-India Progressive Writers' Association: "Khol Do" by Saadat Hasan Manto, "Subah-e Azadi" by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and "Lajwanti" by Rajinder Singh Bedi. Against…
Serial fictions
Serialisation allowed for remarkable experimentation with the new genre of the novel in colonial South Asia. The open nature of serialisation in South Asia, in which novels were not planned in advance but rather could develop and change while in progress, meant that serialised versions of novels were often more experimental than their later book editions. In this article, I use the pioneering Urdu novel Fasāna-e Āzād (1878–83) as a case study to …
A Space For Debate
The novel emerged in South Asia not as an import from Europe, but rather as the product of multiple sources and as a genre capable of fulfilling a distinct function. I argue that the novel as a genre arose in colonial India because of its ability to hold divergent points of view and to subtly critique the British government. I focus on two early Urdu novels, Nazir Ahmad's Mirāt ul-'Arūs (1869) (The Bride's Mirror) and Ratan Nath Sarshar's Fasāna-…
Serial fictions
Serialisation allowed for remarkable experimentation with the new genre of the novel in colonial South Asia. The open nature of serialisation in South Asia, in which novels were not planned in advance but rather could develop and change while in progress, meant that serialised versions of novels were often more experimental than their later book editions. In this article, I use the pioneering Urdu novel Fasāna-e Āzād (1878–83) as a case study to …
Sharafat and Bhal Mānsī
In the late nineteenth century, the definition of sharafat, or respectability, went through great change. This essay explores these changes through Fasana-e Azad (1878–1883), an early Urdu novel. Fasana-e Azad expanded the vocabulary of sharafat, using words like bhal mānsī (the quality of being a good person) to lift respectability above religious categories. Respectability was no longer to be associated with family background, or the Islamicate…
Intimate Relations
The aesthetics of the fragment
Modernism has been retheorized as a global phenomenon, through phrases such as "geomodernism" or "planetary modernism". This article considers Urdu literary modernism, as it developed in South Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. It offers new readings of canonical texts by writers connected to the All-India Progressive Writers' Association: "Khol Do" by Saadat Hasan Manto, "Subah-e Azadi" by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and "Lajwanti" by Rajinder Singh Bedi. Against…
Neetu Khanna. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization . Durham, N.C
Saadat Hasan Manto and the Poetics of the Urdu Short Story
This chapter argues that the preeminent Urdu short-story writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955) utilized a fundamentally poetic style in his best work. The chapter analyzes three exemplary works—the 1942 short story “Bu”; the 1948 collection of vignettes and prose poems on Partition violence, Siyah Hashiye; and the 1948 story “Khol Do”—to show how Manto reinvigorated aspects of Urdu ghazal poetry to make meaning with minimal words. In “Bu,” Manto …
Megan Eaton Robb. Print and the Urdu Public
Journal Article Megan Eaton Robb. Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India. Get access Megan Eaton Robb. Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 247. Cloth $110.00. Jennifer Dubrow Jennifer Dubrow University of Washington, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
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