An uncivil woman : writings on Ismat Chughtai /
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Imprint: | New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2017. ©2017 |
| Description: | xxvii, 235 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11967815 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Disorderly Discernments: How Does One Look through What can be Seen? Ismat Chughtai on the Train
- 2. Looking for Ismat Chughtai: Journeys in Reading and Translation
- 3. Gender, Modernity, and Nationalist Sensibility in Terhi Lakeer
- 4. Ismat Chughtai: A Talk with One of Urdu's Most Outspoken Women Writers
- 5. Teen Anari: A World of Laughter and Lessons
- 6. Lady Chenghez Khan
- 7. The 'Sex Appeal' of Ismat Chughtai's Language
- 8. The Elusiveness of the Ordinary in Ismat's Stories
- 9. Ismat Chughtai: A Reminiscence
- 10. Ismat Chughtai: An Individualistic and Quirky Author
- 11. Breaching Old Fortifications, Finding New Pathways
- 12. Crossing the Line of Fear
- 13. The Dozakhi Ismat Chughtai Upendranath Ashk
- 14. 'The Dirt is in Their Minds'
- Select Bibliography
- About the Editor and Contributors