Colonial India in a Crusades Mirror: Fantasy and Reality in a Nineteenth-Century Urdu Novel
This article extends Georg Lukács's theorization pertaining to historical fiction by considering a novel written in response to colonial conditions. It treats Abdulhalim Sharar's Urdu Malik al-'Aziz and Virginia (1888) as a case where a fictional version of the encounter between Musli...
| Autres titres: | "Special Issue on Steps to a Global Thought: Thinking from Elsewhere (pp. 411–611)" |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Netherlands
2023
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| Dans: |
Sophia
Année: 2023, Volume: 62, Numéro: 3, Pages: 419-432 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Crusades
B Lukács B Ourdou B Sharar B Historical fiction B India |
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| Résumé: | This article extends Georg Lukács's theorization pertaining to historical fiction by considering a novel written in response to colonial conditions. It treats Abdulhalim Sharar's Urdu Malik al-'Aziz and Virginia (1888) as a case where a fictional version of the encounter between Muslims and Christians during the crusades in the twelfth century is used to counter the colonial Indian present in the nineteenth century. I suggest that novels such as Sharar's exemplify a vein of global thought since the nineteenth century that resisted historicism but without abandoning the notion that the past was real. Deploying a genre that came to the fore in colonial conditions, Sharar imagines an alternative future by narrating the past otherwise via fiction. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-023-00961-4 |