The Dancing Girl: Autobiographical Novel - Couverture souple

Shah, Hasan; Hyder, Qurratulain

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811212564 ISBN 13 : 9780811212564

Editeur : New Directions, 1995

Synopsis

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."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New Directions
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0811212564
• ISBN 13: 9780811212564
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 111