Our research shows that, partly for material reasons, magazines and short genres have been much more significant for the visibility and circulation of world literature, at least in the regions of our project.
Friends, Caretakers, Countrymen: Shabḳhūn and the Reconciliations of Urdu Modernism
Zain Mian is a literary translator and researcher of Urdu literature, currently a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Friends, Caretakers, Countrymen: Shabḳhūn and the Reconciliations of Urdu Modernism In April 1966, the new modernist journal Shabḳhūn (or Night-Attack) broke onto the Indian literary scene.