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A Man Outside History is a collection of English translation of 111 Urdu poems written by Naseer Ahmed Nasir, a famous poet from Pakistan, translated into English by Bina Biswas. It is a record of poetic exploration of a man's reaction to history that is about time, psychological and chronological, in all its vivid poetic details. Nasir excels in romantic, rural, local and natural imagery.
This books aims to make an in-depth study of Rabindranath Tagore’s heroines who are curious, sensitive, emotionally strong and modern with a vengeance. An attempt is also made to compare his heroines to the heroines of Henrik Ibsen, Tennessee Williams and Anton Chekov. It focuses on social taboos, womanism, challenges of women and their quest for fulfillment.
Togore’s short stories, dramatic poems and novels studied here include Shashti, Nastaneer, ...
This collection of twenty five stories is her maiden attempt at venturing into Magic Realism but she has given her own interpretation to the term and created Breeze in the Old Building, The Tree, The Little Woman at the Kiln and The Old Man on the Hill. The stories depict especially a world of her own where contrary spaces and characters and times can freely mix, in an often Indian landscape upheld by beautiful and ugly images and powerfully vast and lush ...
