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Shahr-E-Jaanaan: The City of the Beloved
By (author) Adeeba Shahid Talukder
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Shahr-e-jaanaan sets out to recreate the universe of Urdu and Persian poetic tradition, its tropes both lenses and mirrors for the speaker’s reality. As she maps her romances onto legends, directing their characters perform her own tragedy, their fantastical metaphors easily lend themselves to her fluctuating mental state. Cycling between delirious grandeur and wretched despair, she is torn between two selves— the pitiable lover continually rejected, and the cruel, unattainable beloved comparable in her exaltation to a god. Shahr-e-jaanaan explores, interrogates, and distorts these dichotomies and their symbolism, calling into question the forces that elevate some to divinity even as they damn others to injustice and oppression.
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Publisher | Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Published date | 1 Mar 2020
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 104
Dimensions | 229 x 159 x 10mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 172g
ISBN | 978-1-9464-8229-7
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BISAC | poetry / general
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