Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short
story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of
India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the
short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly
formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of
twentieth-century Urdu literature, and his fiction serves as a lens
through which the tragedy of partition is brought sharply into
focus. In "The Pity of Partition," Manto's life and work serve as a
prism to capture the human dimension of sectarian conflict in the
final decades and immediate aftermath of the British raj.
Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as
well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate
history of partition and its devastating toll. Probing the creative
tension between literature and history, she charts a new way of
reconnecting the histories of individuals, families, and
communities in the throes of cataclysmic change. Jalal brings to
life the people, locales, and events that inspired Manto's fiction,
which is characterized by an eye for detail, a measure of wit and
irreverence, and elements of suspense and surprise. In turn, she
mines these writings for fresh insights into everyday
cosmopolitanism in Bombay and Lahore, the experience and causes of
partition, the postcolonial transition, and the advent of the Cold
War in South Asia.
The first in-depth look in English at this influential literary
figure, "The Pity of Partition" demonstrates the revelatory power
of art in times of great historical rupture.
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