Mushtaq Bilal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mushtaq Bilal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mushtaq |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilal |
| SIGNATURE | BILAL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6705-9176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“I belong to the world”
of a Poet") in the Revue de Paris (Paris Review).1 Andersen recalled his meeting with Marmier
Hans Christian Andersen in Ukraine
This paper studies Ukrainian translations of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales done during pre-Soviet and Soviet Russia, and post-Soviet Ukraine. It focuses on pre-Soviet translations by Mykhailo Starytsky (1840–1904), Soviet translations by Oksana Ivanenko (1906–1997), and Natalia Sydorova’s translations in contemporary Ukraine. Building on theoretical insights of Lawrence Venuti, we explore the kind of formal and thematic interpretants thes…
Hans Christian Andersen in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
This paper studies the Bengali translations of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales during the mid-nineteenth century. It starts by looking at how the Vernacular Literature Society, Calcutta (established 1851) introduced Andersen’s tales to counter the lowbrow Battala literature considered inappropriate by the Bengali educated class, the bhadralok . The colonial archive shows that it was Clara de Chatelain’s English translation that Madhusudan M…
Pakistani Literature Festivals and a Scopaesthesiac Consciousness
This paper seeks to understand and theorize Pakistani literature festivals. In order to do so, I study the programs and schedules of the Karachi Literature Festival from 2010–2020 and the Lahore Literary Festival from 2013–2020. Using Andrew Shryock’s idea of Other-consciousness and building on Ammara Maqsood’s anthropological work done in urban Pakistan, I argue that the conception, programming, and execution of festivals like the Karachi and th…
“Yes, I am Joseph Bhatti Choohra
This paper explores how Mohammed Hanif’s 2011 novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti challenges the construct of “Pak-ness” (purity), which is at the heart of the idea of Pakistan and Pakistani national identity. I argue that Joseph Bhatti, the father of the eponymous protagonist Alice Bhatti, is an intricate palimpsest of various historical, political, social, and cultural transformations in India (the Aryan invasion, the inauguration of the Varna syste…
Genre Communities
As long as the study of literature is organized along national lines, scholars cannot decenter global literary history. Merely shifting the focus from major/core literatures to minor/peripheral ones does not decenter anything for such a move preserves the centrality of nation as the only kind of community in which a literary work can become legible. This article argues against a national teleology of literature in which we project the category of…
Reading Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West as a World Novel
This paper investigates how Mohsin Hamid’s fiction challenges the so-called “natural law” of world literature according to which a work of literature has to be first born into a national literature before circulating into world literature. In addition, the paper shows how Hamid’s fiction and its reception strains the category of “national literature.” Building on the theoretical insights of Vittorio Coletti and Alexander Beecroft, I argue that Ha…
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Reading Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West as a World Novel
This paper investigates how Mohsin Hamid’s fiction challenges the so-called “natural law” of world literature according to which a work of literature has to be first born into a national literature before circulating into world literature. In addition, the paper shows how Hamid’s fiction and its reception strains the category of “national literature.” Building on the theoretical insights of Vittorio Coletti and Alexander Beecroft, I argue that Ha…
Pakistani Literature Festivals and a Scopaesthesiac Consciousness
This paper seeks to understand and theorize Pakistani literature festivals. In order to do so, I study the programs and schedules of the Karachi Literature Festival from 2010–2020 and the Lahore Literary Festival from 2013–2020. Using Andrew Shryock’s idea of Other-consciousness and building on Ammara Maqsood’s anthropological work done in urban Pakistan, I argue that the conception, programming, and execution of festivals like the Karachi and th…
“Yes, I am Joseph Bhatti Choohra
This paper explores how Mohammed Hanif’s 2011 novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti challenges the construct of “Pak-ness” (purity), which is at the heart of the idea of Pakistan and Pakistani national identity. I argue that Joseph Bhatti, the father of the eponymous protagonist Alice Bhatti, is an intricate palimpsest of various historical, political, social, and cultural transformations in India (the Aryan invasion, the inauguration of the Varna syste…
Genre Communities
As long as the study of literature is organized along national lines, scholars cannot decenter global literary history. Merely shifting the focus from major/core literatures to minor/peripheral ones does not decenter anything for such a move preserves the centrality of nation as the only kind of community in which a literary work can become legible. This article argues against a national teleology of literature in which we project the category of…
“I belong to the world”
of a Poet") in the Revue de Paris (Paris Review).1 Andersen recalled his meeting with Marmier
Hans Christian Andersen in Ukraine
This paper studies Ukrainian translations of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales done during pre-Soviet and Soviet Russia, and post-Soviet Ukraine. It focuses on pre-Soviet translations by Mykhailo Starytsky (1840–1904), Soviet translations by Oksana Ivanenko (1906–1997), and Natalia Sydorova’s translations in contemporary Ukraine. Building on theoretical insights of Lawrence Venuti, we explore the kind of formal and thematic interpretants thes…
Hans Christian Andersen in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
This paper studies the Bengali translations of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales during the mid-nineteenth century. It starts by looking at how the Vernacular Literature Society, Calcutta (established 1851) introduced Andersen’s tales to counter the lowbrow Battala literature considered inappropriate by the Bengali educated class, the bhadralok . The colonial archive shows that it was Clara de Chatelain’s English translation that Madhusudan M…
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