Sahmat presents 'The Wounded Gazelle of Agha Shahid Ali' a talk by Aamir R. Mufti at Lecture Room - II, Annexe Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6pm on 26th March 2014
Time : 6:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Annexe Lecture Room - II, Annexe Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
Landmark : Annexe Building is Next to Alliance Francaise
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Event Description : Sahmat presents 'The Wounded Gazelle of Agha Shahid Ali' a talk by Aamir R. Mufti.
Chaired by Shahid Amin
Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001), who was born in Delhi and raised between there and Srinagar, is arguably the most important Anglophone poet of his generation from South Asia. A cartographer of intimate emotions in exquisite detail, he also invented a poetic language for exploring the most intractable political conflicts of our region. At the heart of his agonized and ecstatic language is the meaning of Kashmir – the place as well as the myth. He took a tender interest in the lives of women in the traditional sectors of society in the subcontinent. And he insisted that English as a language of poetic expression take account of its indigenous and vernacular environment. This talk will examine the main preoccupations of Shahid’s verse and focus on his most audacious experiment – to stage a poetic encounter between two different languages. We might say that here he essayed the impossible: attempting to write Urdu poetry in English.
Aamir R. Mufti was born and raised in Karachi and studied anthropology and literature, doing a Ph.D. at Columbia University under the supervision of Edward Said. His book, Enlightenment in the Colony, is a re-examination of the crisis of Muslim identity in colonial and postcolonial South Asia, comparing it with the question of Jewish identity in western Europe in the nineteenth century. Another book, Forget English! (forthcoming), is a historical and critical examination of the idea of world literature. He has published widely on modern Urdu literature, postcolonial secularism, minority cultures, Palestinian dispossession, and the history of Orientalism. He teaches comparative literature at UCLA.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Annexe Lecture Room - II, Annexe Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
Landmark : Annexe Building is Next to Alliance Francaise
Venue Info : Events | About | Annexe Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Khan Market(Vilolet Line)' & 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : Sahmat presents 'The Wounded Gazelle of Agha Shahid Ali' a talk by Aamir R. Mufti.
Chaired by Shahid Amin
Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001), who was born in Delhi and raised between there and Srinagar, is arguably the most important Anglophone poet of his generation from South Asia. A cartographer of intimate emotions in exquisite detail, he also invented a poetic language for exploring the most intractable political conflicts of our region. At the heart of his agonized and ecstatic language is the meaning of Kashmir – the place as well as the myth. He took a tender interest in the lives of women in the traditional sectors of society in the subcontinent. And he insisted that English as a language of poetic expression take account of its indigenous and vernacular environment. This talk will examine the main preoccupations of Shahid’s verse and focus on his most audacious experiment – to stage a poetic encounter between two different languages. We might say that here he essayed the impossible: attempting to write Urdu poetry in English.
Aamir R. Mufti was born and raised in Karachi and studied anthropology and literature, doing a Ph.D. at Columbia University under the supervision of Edward Said. His book, Enlightenment in the Colony, is a re-examination of the crisis of Muslim identity in colonial and postcolonial South Asia, comparing it with the question of Jewish identity in western Europe in the nineteenth century. Another book, Forget English! (forthcoming), is a historical and critical examination of the idea of world literature. He has published widely on modern Urdu literature, postcolonial secularism, minority cultures, Palestinian dispossession, and the history of Orientalism. He teaches comparative literature at UCLA.
Related Events : Talks | Poetry
Sahmat presents 'The Wounded Gazelle of Agha Shahid Ali' a talk by Aamir R. Mufti at Lecture Room - II, Annexe Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6pm on 26th March 2014
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