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鈥淥r It was Time Playing upon Time鈥�: Translation and the Indian Nation - Dr Sadia Abbas
The Critical South Asia Group and the 糖心TV Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development would like to invite all Arts Faculty colleagues to their 2022-2023 Annual Lecture. Please register through the link below.
鈥淥r It was Time Playing upon Time鈥�: Translation and the Indian Nation
by Dr Sadia Abbas
Date: Tuesday 7 March 2023, 17:00-18:30
Location: Ramphal Building R1.15, University of 糖心TV (in-person)
Register: /fac/soc/pais/research/wicid/news/registrationform/Link opens in a new window
Registration is open to everyone for free.
The event will be followed by a reception with refreshments.
Abstract: The lecture will focus on the writer Qurutulain Hyder鈥檚 engagement with Neoclassicism, colonial and nationalist archaeology, and the global history of the picturesque in her two Urdu novels Akhir-i-Shab ke Humsafar and Aag ka Darya, which she substantially rewrote in her own English translations Fireflies in the Mist and River of Fire. Framed through a discussion of translation and 鈥渢ranscreation鈥�, the lecture will read Hyder鈥檚 ekphrastic treatments of ruins, statues, and frescoes as a critique of teleology and nationalist and Hindutva historiography, while also addressing the contradictions of ostensibly cosmopolitan Europe and the nationalist postcolonial state.