Critical Discourse in Urdu

This volume forms a part of the important multivolume series Critical Discourses in South Asia which explores schools, movements and critical discursive practices in major languages. It brings together English translations of major writings dealing with Urdu literary culture, criticism and theory and re-visiting and re-evaluation of literary concepts and categories over the last one and half centuries that contributed to the making of its critical tradition.

The book with its wide coverage will serve as a useful guide for scholars and researchers of literary and cultural studies. It will be essential reading for those in Urdu language and literature, comparative literature, literary criticism, literary theory, regional language studies, area studies, history, sociology, social and cultural anthropology, politics, gender studies, postcolonial studies, South Asian Studies, and Third World and Global South studies, as well as those working on conservation of languages and cultures, and the Urdu diaspora across the world.

M. Asaduddin is former Professor of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India; and Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and INALCO, Paris. He was a Charles Wallace Trust Fellow at the university of East Anglia, UK, and Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers University, USA. He is a much-awarded multilingual translator. His research interests and publications span the fields of literary history, language politics, comparative literature and translation studies. Among his works are – Filming Fiction: Tagore, Satyajit Ray and Premchand; and Premchand: The Complete Stories (four volumes)

M. Rizwan Khan is a Professor in the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, India; and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Arts and Aesthetics at IULM University, Milan, Italy and at the University of Veszprem, Hungary. As Coordinator of the UGC-SAP DRS-II project on Translation Studies, among various academic activities, he has spearheaded numerous interdisciplinary initiatives and digital advancements in education. Under the Global Initiative of Academic Network (GIAN) program, he has conducted three courses so far.