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Additional authors

1. Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
2. Frezzolini Severance, Sylvia
3. Qurratulʻain Ḥaidar, 1927-2007
4. New Directions Publishing, publisher.
5. James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

1. xv, 111 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

1. Written in 1790, Hasan Shah's autobiographical romance, The Dancing Girl, is remarkable for both its lyrical prose and its fine recreation of a time, a place, and a culture - India in the 1780s, a tolerant, affable era before the full establishment of British colonial rule. The Dancing Girl tells of the doomed love of Hasan Shah (aide-de-camp to a British officer) and Khanum Jan (a courageous and gifted dancer of the courtesan caste) whose secret marriage could not prevent their separation. At Khanum Jan's death, her grief-stricken husband turned his raw emotion into a surprisingly modern, first-person narrative "without realizing", as leading Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder observes in the foreword to her translation (from the 1893 Urdu translation of the original Persian), "that he had become a pioneer of the modern Indian novel."

Series statement

1. New Directions paperbook ; 777
2. NDP777

Uniform title

1. Nashtar. English

Alternative title

1. Nashtar.

Subject

1. Hasan Shah, active 18th century > Fiction
2. Hasan Shah, active 18th century
3. India > Fiction
4. India

Genre/Form

1. Autobiographical fiction.
2. Romance fiction.
3. Fiction.

Call number

1. Berg Coll 22-1741

Note

1. Originally written in Persian under the title "Nashtar" ; based on Urdu translated version.
2. "A New Directions book" -- title page.
3. "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-111).

Indexed in (note)

1. Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

1. bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini.

Author

1. Hasan Shah, active 18th century.

Title

1. The dancing girl : a novel / by Hasan Shah ; translated by Qurratulain Hyder.

Imprint

1. New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1993.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. New Directions paperbook ; 777
2. NDP777

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-111).

Indexed in:

1. Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 138.

Binding

1. Copy in Berg Coll 22-1741 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini. NN

Local note

1. Copy in Berg Coll 22-1741 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added author

1. Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
2. Frezzolini Severance, Sylvia, cover designer.
3. Qurratulʻain Ḥaidar, 1927-2007, translator.
4. New Directions Publishing, publisher.
5. Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
6. Javitch, Daniel, donor.
7. Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
8. James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

LCCN

1. 93026268

ISBN

1. 0811212564 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
2. 9780811212564 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Research call number

1. Berg Coll 22-1741