Fiction, Urdu

by Oesterheld, Christina

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Urdu fiction in the modern sense dates back only as far as the last decades of the nineteenth century, but storytelling has a long and rich tradition in South Asia, and Urdu, in particular, was historically rich in narrative forms drawing on Indic as well as Persian and Arabic sources, such as naql (tale, report, anecdote), laṭīfa (witticism, witty anecdote, joke), ḥikāyat (tale, fable, parable), and qiṣṣa and dāstān (initially synonymous, but later defined, respectively, as shorter tale and lo…

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Urdu fiction in the modern sense dates back only as far as the last decades of the nineteenth century, but storytelling has a long and rich tradition in South Asia, and Urdu, in particular, was historically rich in narrative forms drawing on Indic as well as Persian and Arabic sources, such as naql (tale, report, anecdote), laṭīfa (witticism, witty anecdote, joke), ḥikāyat (tale, fable, parable), and qiṣṣa and dāstān (initially synonymous, but later defined, respectively, as shorter tale and longer, more complex story). The evolution of modern Urdu fiction was

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2041

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eng Islam

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Oesterheld, Christina

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