Image and Representation - Stories of Muslim Lives in India

Image and Representation - Stories of Muslim Lives in India

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Author: Mushirul Hasan
M Asaduddin/
Editor: Mushirul Hasan / M Asaduddin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 349
ISBN/UPC (if available): 019566261X

Description

Now in paperback edition, this comprehensive anthology of short stories explores Muslim lives and inter-community relationship in the Indian subcontinent. By sensitizing readers to the multicultural reality of Muslim society it effectively dismantles the notion of a homogenized and inalienable Muslim identity and experience, a notation that does not take into account the complex and lived realities of India's more than 100 million Muslims.

Selected from at least twelve Indian languages, the short stories in this volume cover almost the entire twentieth century, and include writers like Saratchandra Chatterjee, Premchand, Ismat Chughtai, Vaikom M Basheer, N S Madhavan, Anand and Jayanta De, Ashfaq Ahmad, Abdul Bismillah, Fakir M Katpadi and Thoppil M Meeran.

An authentic social document, this volume will appeal to the general reader as well as historians and those interested in Indian literature.

EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS:

The anthology is rich in stylistic variety ranging from the simple traditional linear narratives, through psychological realism to post-modern self-reflectivity and even magic realism.
NBT Newsletter

The introduction of the book is extremely enriching as it enables the readers to contextualize the stories in their proper historical settings.
- The Statesman