"Urdu literature: individual works and perspectives".

This half-day seminar highlights the diversity of Urdu literature through the individual readings of its readers. Each speaker will present a selected work - be it a novel, short story, poem or essay - sharing his or her personal point of view. The aim is to encourage a creative dialogue around the aesthetic, historical and contemporary dimensions of this literature. This encounter conceives Urdu as a living language, without borders, which bears witness to the past and enters into dialogue with the complex questionings of our time.

Programme:

2:30pm - 2:35pm Introduction: Humaira Sadaf (PhD student, Comparative Literature, INALCO)

2:35pm - 2:50pm Welcoming remarks: Shahzaman Haque (Researcher and Head of the Urdu Department)

2:50pm - 4:20pm First session: - Sadia Syed: Fasana-e-Azad - Ratan Nath Sarshar - Sarah Sauvet: Allah Miyan ka Karkhana - Mohsin Khan - Saadia Afzal: Udaas Naslain - Abdullah Hussain - Taiba: Khuda ki Basti - Shaukat Siddiqui

4:20 - 4:40 pm Break

4:40 - 6:00 pm

Second session: - Bedar Abbas: Urdu books at BULAC - 20th and 21st centuries - Humaira Sadaf: When history becomes injury: the trauma of the partition of the Indian subcontinent in the Urdu novel

18:00 - 18:30 Final discussion and Q&A session

ORGANIZATION

Shahzaman Haque

CONTACT

shahzaman.haque@inalco.fr