SELECTED
ARTICLES AND TRANSLATIONS
“Lost in Translation” [a
reaction to
a review by Khushwant Singh of a new anthology of modern Urdu
literature],
Outlook India website, Jan. 22, 2008: *site*.
“‘The Meaning of the Meaningless
Verses’:
Ghalib and his Commentators.” A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu
Studies
in Transnational Perspective (a festschrift in honor of C.
M.
Naim). Ed. by Kathryn Hansen and David Lelyveld. Pp. 251-272. New
Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2005. Here is a *DRAFT version*;
it is not quite the final published form.
“A Long History of Urdu Literary
Culture,
Part 2.” Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South
Asia.
Sheldon Pollock, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2003.
Pp. 864-911. Here is a *DRAFT version*; it is not quite the final
published form.
“‘The Straw that I Took in my
Teeth’:
Of Lovers, Beloveds, and Charges of Sexism in the Urdu Ghazal.”
Manushi
136 (May-June 2003): [site].
Also: *on
this site*.
“Afterword: the First Urdu
Bestseller.”
The Bride’s Mirror: A Tale of Life in Delhi a Hundred Years Ago. By
Nazir Ahmad, trans. by G. E. Ward. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001.
Pp.
204-223: *on
this site*.
“The Sky, the Road, the Glass of
Wine:
On Translating Faiz.” Annual of Urdu Studies 15
(2000):I,57-76.
Available through the *Annual's
website*. Here's my own version: *on
this site*
“Kaukab's Magic Powers:
Strategies for Dastan Translation.”
Annual of Urdu Studies 15
(2000).
Available through the *Annual's
website*.
“On Ralph Russell's Reading
of the Classical Ghazal.” Annual of Urdu Studies 11
(1996).
Available through the *Annual's
website*.
“The World of Amar Chitra
Katha.”
In: Media and the Transformations of Religion in South Asia.
Lawrence
A. Babb and Susan S. Wadley, eds. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania
Press, 1995. Pp. 76-106. Available here is a *DRAFT version*.
“A Date List for Urdu
Literature--A
Work in Progress.” by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and Frances W. Pritchett. Annual
of Urdu Studies 9 (1994):173-211. Available through the *Annual's
website*.This has by now now evolved into *THE
DATELIST OF URDU LITERARY FIGURES*, a collaborative online
database
maintained by Sean Pue with help from Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and FWP.
“Orient Pearls Unstrung: The
Quest
for Unity in the Ghazal.” Edebiyat NS 4 (1993):119-135: *on this
site*
“Azad Goes to a Railway
Restaurant”
(trans. of an episode from Sarshar’s Fasanah-e Azad). In: Modern
Indian Literature: An Anthology, vol. 2. K. M. George, ed. New
Delhi:
Sahitya Akademi, 1993. Pp. 1131-1136. Available *on this site*.
“Lyric Poetry in Urdu: the
Ghazal,”
by S. R. Faruqi and F. W. Pritchett. Delos 3,3-4 (Winter 1991),
pp. 7-12. Available *on this site*.
(Contains my translation of Ghalib's
{58}.)
“Ghazals by Mirza Asadullah Khan
Ghalib,”
translated by F. W. Pritchett. Delos 3,3-4 (Winter 1991), pp.
14-27: *on
this site*.
(Contains my translation of Ghalib's
{5} (a second version), {49}, {126}.)
“Scorpion, Cave, Pattern”
(trans. of
the story “Bichchhu ghar naqsh” by Anvar Sajjad). In: The
Tale
of the Old Fisherman: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories. M. U.
Memon, ed. Washington: Three Continents Press, 1991. Pp. 181-185.
“The Dastan Revival: An
Overview.” Annual
of Urdu Studies 7 (1990):76-82: *DSAL*.
“Women, Death, and Fate:
Sexual Politics
in the Dastan-e Amir Hamzah.” In: Bridging Worlds: Studies on
Women in South Asia. Sally J. Sutherland, ed. Berkeley: University
of California, Center for South Asian Studies, 1990. Pp. 71-95.
“Emperor of India: Landhaur
bin Sadan
in the Hamza Cycle.” In: Urdu and Muslim South Asia: Studies in
Honour
of Ralph Russell. Christopher Shackle, ed. London: School of
Oriental
and African Studies, 1989. Pp. 67-75.
“Kaukab’s Magic Powers:
Strategies
for Dastan Translation.” Annual of Urdu Studies 6 (1987):55-67:
*DSAL*.
“‘The Chess Players’: from
Premchand
to Satyajit Ray.” In “Essays on Premchand,” ed. by Carlo Coppola; Journal
of South Asian Literature 22,2 (Summer-Fall 1986):65-78:
*on this site*.
“Faiz and the Classical
Ghazal” (trans.
of an Urdu essay by S. R. Faruqi). Trans. in collaboration with the
author. The
Indian Literary Review 4,1 (January 1986):59-64.
“Stalking the Wild Ephemera:
Resources
for Collecting, Studying, and Preserving South Asian Pamphlet
Literature.” South
Asia Library Notes and Queries 18 (Spring 1985):6-12.
“Travel Diary” (trans. of a
poem by
N. M. Rashid). Trans. by S. R. Faruqi and F. W. Pritchett. Annual
of
Urdu Studies 5 (1985):20-21: *DSAL*.
“Two Ghazals” and “Stanzas
from Ghalib”
(trans. of poems by Ghalib). New Letters 51,4 (Summer,
1985):126-130: *on this site*.
(Contains my translation of Ghalib's
{5}; {127}; {174,8}, {49,5}, {105,2}, {71,6}, {71,7}, {71,9}, {35,1},
{35,2},
{35,3}, {35,5}, {35,9}, {23,1}.)
“A Magic Combat from the Tilism-e
hoshruba.” India International Centre Quarterly 11,4 (Dec.
1984):379-384.
“Lyric Poetry in Urdu: Ghazal
and
Nazm.” By S. R. Faruqi and F. W. Pritchett. In “The Lyric
in
India,” ed. by Richard Williams, special number, Journal of South
Asian
Literature 19,2 (Summer-Fall 1984):111-127. (Contains my
translations
of Ghalib's *{75}
and {80}*.)
“River of Flesh” (trans. of
the story
“Mañs ka darya” by Kamaleshvar). Journal of South Asian
Literature
19,1 (Winter-Spring 1984):69-79.
“‘The Vile World
Carnival’: A
Shahr-ashob by Nazir Akbarabadi.” Trans. by S. R. Faruqi and F.
W.
Pritchett. Annual of Urdu Studies 4 (1984):24-35: *DSAL*.
The translation is also available *on
this site*, and the *Urdu text* as well.
“The World Turned Upside
Down’:
Shahr ashob as a Genre.” Annual of Urdu Studies 4 (1984):37-41:
*DSAL*.
“‘In the Presence of the
Nightingale’:
A Shahr-ashob by Jur’at.” Trans. by S. R. Faruqi and F. W. Pritchett. Annual
of Urdu Studies 3 (1983):1-9: *DSAL*.
S. R. Faruqi's "Jur'at's Shahr-ashob: An Afterword" appears in the same
issue, p. 9-11: *DSAL*.
The translation is also available *on this
site*, and the *Urdu text* as well.
“Literature and Love” and
“Vikram,
the Vampire, and the Story” (trans. of essays by Intizar Husain). In
“The
Writings of Intizar Husain,” ed. by M. U. Memon, Journal of South
Asian
Literature 18,2 (Summer-Fall 1983):144-148, 149-152. The latter
article
is available *on this site*.
“Príthviraj
raso: A Look
at the Poem Itself.” Indian Literature 23,5 (Sept.-Oct.
1980):56-75.
“Convention in the Classical
Urdu
Ghazal: the Case of Mir.” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies 3,1 (Fall 1979):60-77: *on this site*.
“Miss Pal” (translation of
the Hindi
story “Mis Pal” by Mohan Rakesh). Journal of South Asian
Literature
14,3-4 (Summer-Fall 1979), pp. 99-118: *on this site*.
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