An Uncivil Woman
Writings on Ismat Chughtai
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9780199474875
Publication date:
03/10/2017
Hardback
264 pages
Price: 550.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199474875
Publication date:
03/10/2017
Hardback
264 pages
Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil
Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991). Her unabashed, often risqué style of writing fetched her much notoriety in her lifetime, but today she is adulated as a radical voice well ahead of her times.
This collection of writings on Chughtai curates critical readings of her by modern scholars as well as her contemporaries. Read along with her interviews, these writings offer a more holistic way of understanding Chughtai—beyond narrow gender terms—as a politically aware, socially engaged writer, and an artist concerned with humanity.
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Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil
Description
Few authors have blasted open the doors of convention as forcefully as Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991). In doing so, she brought to life stories seldom heard outside the zanana. Her unabashed, often risqué style of writing fetched her much notoriety in her lifetime, but today she is adulated as a radical voice well ahead of her times.
One of the four pillars of the modern Urdu short story, along with Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chandar, and Rajinder Singh Bedi, Chughtai has become enshrined in the canon of Indian literature. Yet, even twenty-six years after her death, her primary identity remains that of a pioneer of women’s fiction.
This collection of writings on Chughtai, a hundred years after her birth, curates critical readings of her by modern scholars as well as her contemporaries. Read along with her interviews, where she speaks her mind in her own inimitable style on a range of thorny issues from lesbianism to communism, these writings offer a more holistic way of understanding Chughtai beyond narrow gender terms—as a politically aware and socially engaged writer, a champion of individual liberty, and, ultimately, an artist concerned with humanity.
About the Editor
Rakhshanda Jalil is a writer, critic, and literary historian. She has published over 15 books and written over 50 academic papers and essays. Her recent books include Liking Progress, Loving Change: Literary History of the Progressive Writers’ Movement in Urdu (2014); a biography of Urdu feminist writer Dr Rashid Jahan, A Rebel and her Cause (2014); a translation of 15 short stories by Intizar Husain entitled The Death of Sheherzad (2014); and The Sea Lies Ahead (2015), a translation of Intizar Husain's seminal novel on Karachi. She runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi–Urdu literature and culture.
Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Rakhshanda Jalil
1. Disorderly Discernments: How Does One Look through What can be Seen? Ismat Chughtai on the Train
Geeta Patel
2. Looking for Ismat Chughtai: Journeys in Reading and Translation
Tahira Naqvi
3. Gender, Modernity, and Nationalist Sensibility in Terhi Lakeer
Fatima Rizvi
4. Ismat Chughtai: A Talk with One of Urdu’s Most Outspoken Women Writers
Carlo Coppola
5. Teen Anari: A World of Laughter and Lessons
Syeda S. Hameed
6. Lady Chenghez Khan
Qurratulain Hyder
(Translated by Deeba Zafir)
7. The ‘Sex Appeal’ of Ismat Chughtai’s Language
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
(Translated by Mohammad Asim Siddiqui)
8. The Elusiveness of the Ordinary in Ismat’s Stories
Krishan Chandar
(Translated by Rakhshanda Jalil)
9. Ismat Chughtai: A Reminiscence
Muhammad Hasan Askari
(Translated by Asif Aslam Farrukhi)
10. Ismat Chughtai: An Individualistic and Quirky Author
Khalil-ur-Rehman Azmi
(Translated by Huma Mirza)
11. Breaching Old Fortifications, Finding New Pathways
Patras Bokhari
(Translated by Fatima Rizvi)
12. Crossing the Line of Fear
Hajra Masrur
(Translated by Rakhshanda Jalil)
13. The Dozakhi Ismat Chughtai
Upendranath Ashk
(Translated by Rakhshanda Jalil)
14. ‘The Dirt is in Their Minds’
Asif Aslam Farrukhi
Select Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil
Features
- Chughtai is a highly prescribed author in literature courses
- Works of translation available in the market, but lack of any critical material
- Various perspectives on Chughtai; some of the contributors knew her personally
- Essays by important contemporaries like Qurratulain Hyder, Faiz Ahamed Faiz , Krishan Chandar, and Upendranath Ashk
- Sheds light on her controversial life and literature
- Essays written originally in English as well those available in translation for the first time
- Scholarly essays as well as interviews
Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil
Description
Few authors have blasted open the doors of convention as forcefully as Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991). In doing so, she brought to life stories seldom heard outside the zanana. Her unabashed, often risqué style of writing fetched her much notoriety in her lifetime, but today she is adulated as a radical voice well ahead of her times.
One of the four pillars of the modern Urdu short story, along with Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chandar, and Rajinder Singh Bedi, Chughtai has become enshrined in the canon of Indian literature. Yet, even twenty-six years after her death, her primary identity remains that of a pioneer of women’s fiction.
This collection of writings on Chughtai, a hundred years after her birth, curates critical readings of her by modern scholars as well as her contemporaries. Read along with her interviews, where she speaks her mind in her own inimitable style on a range of thorny issues from lesbianism to communism, these writings offer a more holistic way of understanding Chughtai beyond narrow gender terms—as a politically aware and socially engaged writer, a champion of individual liberty, and, ultimately, an artist concerned with humanity.
About the Editor
Rakhshanda Jalil is a writer, critic, and literary historian. She has published over 15 books and written over 50 academic papers and essays. Her recent books include Liking Progress, Loving Change: Literary History of the Progressive Writers’ Movement in Urdu (2014); a biography of Urdu feminist writer Dr Rashid Jahan, A Rebel and her Cause (2014); a translation of 15 short stories by Intizar Husain entitled The Death of Sheherzad (2014); and The Sea Lies Ahead (2015), a translation of Intizar Husain's seminal novel on Karachi. She runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi–Urdu literature and culture.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Rakhshanda Jalil
1. Disorderly Discernments: How Does One Look through What can be Seen? Ismat Chughtai on the Train
Geeta Patel
2. Looking for Ismat Chughtai: Journeys in Reading and Translation
Tahira Naqvi
3. Gender, Modernity, and Nationalist Sensibility in Terhi Lakeer
Fatima Rizvi
4. Ismat Chughtai: A Talk with One of Urdu’s Most Outspoken Women Writers
Carlo Coppola
5. Teen Anari: A World of Laughter and Lessons
Syeda S. Hameed
6. Lady Chenghez Khan
Qurratulain Hyder
(Translated by Deeba Zafir)
7. The ‘Sex Appeal’ of Ismat Chughtai’s Language
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
(Translated by Mohammad Asim Siddiqui)
8. The Elusiveness of the Ordinary in Ismat’s Stories
Krishan Chandar
(Translated by Rakhshanda Jalil)
9. Ismat Chughtai: A Reminiscence
Muhammad Hasan Askari
(Translated by Asif Aslam Farrukhi)
10. Ismat Chughtai: An Individualistic and Quirky Author
Khalil-ur-Rehman Azmi
(Translated by Huma Mirza)
11. Breaching Old Fortifications, Finding New Pathways
Patras Bokhari
(Translated by Fatima Rizvi)
12. Crossing the Line of Fear
Hajra Masrur
(Translated by Rakhshanda Jalil)
13. The Dozakhi Ismat Chughtai
Upendranath Ashk
(Translated by Rakhshanda Jalil)
14. ‘The Dirt is in Their Minds’
Asif Aslam Farrukhi
Select Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
