Qurratulain Hyder on the Move: Crossing the Frontiers of Gender, Language, and Nation

by Syed Akbar Hyder

In a career spanning seven decades, Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007) achieved distinction as a novelist, journalist, translator, and innovator in Urdu literature. To shed new light on this multilingual itinerant woman with a curatorial eye, the present study turns to Hyder's genre-bending reportage writing, which has not yet garnered the same scholarly attention as her majestic novels and short stories. At once autobiographical, admonitory, journalistic,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004695508
• ISBN13: 9789004695504
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 380 Pages