A dense tranquillity, a harsh solitude: the 'un-natural' modernism of Miraji.
This paper delineates the socio-historical imagination underpinning the works of Miraji, one of the pioneers of Urdu poetic modernism. It argues that the 'modernism' attributed to Miraji's poetry is best understood as the culmination of, as well as a veritable departure from, a specific diachronic m...
| Publicado en: | South Asian History & Culture Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 300 - 315 |
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