bokomslag Dancing Girl - Autobiographical Novel (Paper Only), The
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  • 111 sidor
  • 1995
Written in 1790, Hasan Shah's autobiographical romance, The Dancing Girl, is remarkable for both its lyrical prose and its fine recreation of a time, a place, and a culture - India in the 1780s, a tolerant, affable era before the full establishment of British colonial rule. The Dancing Girl tells of the doomed love of Hasan Shah (aide-de-camp to a British officer) and Khanum Jan (a courageous and gifted dancer of the courtesan caste) whose secret marriage could not prevent their separation. At Khanum Jan's death, her grief-stricken husband turned his raw emotion into a surprisingly modern, first-person narrative "without realizing", as leading Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder observes in the foreword to her translation (from the 1893 Urdu translation of the original Persian), "that he had become a pioneer of the modern Indian novel".
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780811212564
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 111
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1995-03-01
  • Översättare: Qurratulain Hyder