Title The pity of partition : Manto's life, times, and work across the India-Pakistan divide / Ayesha Jalal

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) Series Lawrence Stone lectures Lawrence Stone lectures. Contents Prelude: Manto and Partition -- I. Stories -- "Knives, Daggers, and Bullets Cannot Destroy Religion" -- Amritsar Dreams of Revolution -- Bombay : Challenges and Opportunities -- II. Memories -- Remembering Partition -- From Cinema City to Conquering Air Waves -- Living and Walking Bombay -- III. Histories -- Partition : Neither End nor Beginning -- On the Postcolonial Moment -- Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War -- Epilogue: "A Nail's Debt" : Manto Lives On .. Summary "Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, and his fiction serves as a lens through which the tragedy of partition is brought sharply into focus. In The Pity of Partition, Manto's life and work serve as a prism to capture the human dimension of sectarian conflict in the final decades and immediate aftermath of the British raj. Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate history of partition and its devastating toll. Probing the creative tension between literature and history, she charts a new way of reconnecting the histories of individuals, families, and communities in the throes of cataclysmic change. Jalal brings to life the people, locales, and events that inspired Manto's fiction, which is characterized by an eye for detail, a measure of wit and irreverence, and elements of suspense and surprise. In turn, she mines these writings for fresh insights into everyday cosmopolitanism in Bombay and Lahore, the experience and causes of partition, the postcolonial transition, and the advent of the Cold War in South Asia. The first in-depth look in English at this influential literary figure, The Pity of Partition demonstrates the revelatory power of art in times of great historical rupture"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan, 1912-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan, 1912-1955 -- Political and social views Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan, 1912-1955 -- Correspondence SUBJECT Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan, 1912-1955 -- Correspondence Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan, 1912-1955 -- Political and social views Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan, 1912-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan, 1912-1955 fast Subject India-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949. Authors, Urdu -- 20th century -- Biography Short stories, Urdu -- History and criticism Narration (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Indic. Authors, Urdu Literature Narration (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects Political and social views Short stories, Urdu SUBJECT India -- History -- Partition, 1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003291 South Asia -- History -- 20th century South Asia -- In literature Subject India South Asia Genre/Form Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Personal correspondence Form Electronic book LC no. 2012024142 ISBN 9781400846689 1400846684 1299051359 9781299051355

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