Look at the City from Here : Karachi Writings （Reprint）

Farrukhi, Asif (EDT)

Oxford Univ Pr（2013/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 295 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195473698
• DDC分類 895

Full Description

A city of teeming millions, Karachi seems to defy description. It is a city of myriad metaphors. It is a city which will be the pride of the East, wrote a visitor in the last century while a recent essay describes it as the saddest of the cities. It is the city nobody loves, says another. Millions and millions continue to live and work in this city, hating and loving it at the same time. But who understands its story? Karachi is also the city of many texts. It has drawn a range of writers across languages and genres, from Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai to Kamila Shamsie, Qurratulain Hyder to Asad Muhammad Khan and Hasan Manzar, Faiz Ahmed Faiz to Fehmida Riaz, Sir Richard Burton to Lawrence (of Arabia). This anthology of writings in and about Karachi presents the many moods and features of the city through writings which collectively highlight the city of many realities and multiple identities.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; INTRODUCTIONCROCODILE KILLERS ; SHAH ABDUL LATIF ; 4 MEMORIES OF A BESIEGED CITY ; NAOMUL MARIANNE POSTANS ; 7. FROM SIND REVISITED ; RICHARD BURTON ; 8. SUDDEN DEATH LODGE ; P C WREN ; 9. FROM INDIAN EMBERS ; LADY ROSAMUND LAWRENCE ; 10. SHAUKAT SIDDIQUI ; 17. THE TRAITOR ; MOHAN KALPANA ; 18. FROM 25 NORTH BY 67 MOHAMMAD KHAN ; 25. SINDHI WOMAN ; JON STALLWORTHY ; 26. MEGALOPOLIS ; ZIA JALANDHARI ; 27. A JOURNEY ; AMAR JALEEL ; 28. FROM AMONG THE BELIEVERS ; V.S. NAIPAUL ; 29. FROM THE THIRTEENTH HOUSE ; ADAM ZAMEENZAD ; 30. FROM HOT-WATER MAN ; DEBORAH MOGACH ; 31. WHEN I AM SIXTY-FOUR ; MUMTAZ MAHAR ; 32. A VISIT ; AFZAAL AHMED SYED ; 33. 38 BAHADURABAD ; ZEEBA SADIQ ; 34. MACHINE ; ATIYA DAWOOD ; 37. DISTANT STAR ; ASIF FARRUKHI ; 38. KARACHI ; ZEHRA NIGAH ; 39. KARACHI ; PARVEEN SHAKIR ; 40. INFERNO ; ZAMIRUDDIN AHMED ; HINA ; 43. ELEGY FOR KARACHI ; MAKI KURESHI ; 44. FROM A CRACKED MIRROR ; KARTOGRAPHY ; KAMILA SHAMSIE ; 49. JOGGING PARK ; NIKHAT HASSAN ; 50. FROM MASS TRANSIT ; MANIZA NAQVI ; 51. MAGAN SHALOM ; SHER SHAH SYED ; 52. THE SEA KRAMATSCHEK