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“Golden hour” : nostalgia and the demise of the Muslim urban space in Twilight in Delhi and Sunlight on a Broken Column

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14/11/2022
Author
Kazmi, Zehra
Keywords
Ahmed Ali
Attia Hosain
Sunlight on a Broken Column
Twilight in Delhi
Nostalgia
Svetlana Boym
GN Anthropology
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This article explores how changing cityscapes of (post)colonial urban transition contribute to the creation of nostalgic longing in Twilight in Delhi and Sunlight on a Broken Column. Drawing from recent scholarship, it focuses on the memorialization of space and compares the ways in which narrative memory frames the perception of urbanization in both texts. Further, this study also examines the cultural location of this nostalgia and articulates the categorization of a specific Muslim nostalgia, which comes from the recognition of the anticipated political and social exclusion of the community in contemporary India. The article analyses the impact of the transformation of the city with colonization and decolonization on Muslims, as narrated in both texts. Borrowing from Svetlana Boym’s twin concepts of reflective and restorative nostalgia as analytical frameworks, a close reading reveals significantly contrasting literary perspectives when it comes to narrating the flux between modernity and tradition within the Indo Muslim imagination.
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Kazmi , Z 2022 , ' “Golden hour” : nostalgia and the demise of the Muslim urban space in Twilight in Delhi and Sunlight on a Broken Column ' , Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2083769
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Journal of Postcolonial Writing
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2083769
ISSN
1744-9855
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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