Revolutionary Papers

Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Leftanti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production. Read More

Zain Mian

Zain R. Mian is a PhD Candidate in the Program for Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in contemporary debates on World Literature, the sociology of literary institutions and forms, as well as historiographical theory and narratology more broadly. Zain’s Masters research project, “The Reluctant Comparatists: Towards A Reconceptualization of Pakistani Literature,” was awarded the Postgraduate Essay Prize by the Postcolonial Studies Association. Currently, he is laying the foundation for a dissertation on the theoretical status of the journal as a literary form, contextualized within the Urdu and Anglophone traditions.

Journals presented by Zain Mian

A Tale of Two Journals: The Poetics and Politics of Community in Mid-Century North India. Urdu literary culture underwent successive aesthetic and political revolutions in the brief period from 1935 to 1970. These revolutions, for social realism and modernism respectively, were ushered in by the journals Shāhrāh (1949-1960) and Shabkhūn (1966-2005). Entirely opposed in their […]