A01=Adeeba Shahid Talukder
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Author_Adeeba Shahid Talukder
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Category1=Non-Fiction
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Colonialism
COP=United States
Culture
Debut
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Despair
Divinity
Emotional
English
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Exoticization
ghazal
Grandeur
Hate
Identity
Imagery
Imagination
Indifference
Injustice
Inner
Journey
Landscapes
Language
Language_English
Love
Lover
Metaphor
Mirror
Oppression
Otherness
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Persia
Poetry
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Racism
Reflection
Romance
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Spirituality
Tradition
Tragedy
Urdu
Product details
- ISBN 9781946482297
- Weight: 172g
- Dimensions: 159 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2020
- Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Shahr-e-jaanaan sets out to recreate the universe of Urdu and Persian poetic tradition, its tropes both lenses and mirrors for the speaker’s reality. As she maps her romances onto legends, directing their characters perform her own tragedy, their fantastical metaphors easily lend themselves to her fluctuating mental state. Cycling between delirious grandeur and wretched despair, she is torn between two selves— the pitiable lover continually rejected, and the cruel, unattainable beloved comparable in her exaltation to a god. Shahr-e-jaanaan explores, interrogates, and distorts these dichotomies and their symbolism, calling into question the forces that elevate some to divinity even as they damn others to injustice and oppression.
