Tracing the Boundaries between Hindi and Urdu
Lost and Added in Translation between 20th Century Short Stories
Biographical note
Christine Everaert, Ph.D. (2006) in Asian Languages and Civilizations (Indology) from Ghent University, Belgium, has taught Hindi at the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Hindi at the University of California, Irvine (USA). Her research focuses on Hindi and Urdu short story literature and linguistics.
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This work is particularly useful to anybody interested in modern Hindi/Urdu fiction, South-Asian literature and culture, (socio-)linguistics, history or social sciences. The translations also provide easily accessible source material.
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