Abstract
There have been two kinds of opinions since debate regarding Post-modernism
or theory. took roots in Urdu. On one hand, there are writers who say that these
post- modernist theories are new and enriching for Urdu literature, while on the
other hand some writers claim that post-modernism and all other theories of
criticism influenced by it were already there in Urdu. Not a single of these
theories is new and West is just selling old wines to the East in new bottles,
Some even claimed that the West is selling back our own theories branding them
as their's. Such claims have been presented by both the sides but to date no
substantial proof has been provided by either of them. People who claim that
these theories are new, have only published books on debates about the theory,
but the original literary writings were not acknowledged in these books. On the
other hand,there are those critics who claim that all these structuralist and post
structuralist theories which are proclaimed as new have already been there in our
literature. But they have only been active in word-of-mouth marketing.I attended
to this issue and started identifying modern and post-modern theories from the
writings of Kaleemuddin Ahmed.It would be interestnig to note that I was able
to find about all the modern critical theories in his writings. With the help of
textual evidences, this article shows the presence of modernist and
postmodernist strands in Ahmed's work.
Muhammad Ashraf Mughal. (2019) Hints about Modern and Post Modern Critical Concepts in the Criticism of Kaleemuddin Ahmed, Mayar , Volume 21-22 , Issue 1.
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