Abstract
The biographical documentary elements are visible in the Urdu novels from the very beginning of novel like English.The real life colors gives the novel the color of biographical documentation.Most ofthe critics agree that the novel Nishtar (1790-91 in Hindi Persian language)lays the initial tracesof Urdu novel writing.Later on translated in Urdu in 1894.Another important name in the biographical documentary novel tradition is Mirza Muhammad HadiRuswa(1857-1931).His novels Umrao Jan Ada(1899), Zat Sharif(1900),and Sharifzada(1900)are novels with biographical elements and are derived from real life. From Raswa to the twenty-first century, we see biographical documentary elements in important novelists like Shamsur Rahman Farooqi, Ahsan Farooqi,Ahmed Bashir,Intzar Hussain etc. In the tradition of Urdu novel, not only biographical documentation is found, but there are also some novels in which other colors of documentation are visible. Such as historical, religious, scientific, social facts, for the discovery of which the author has to go through research gorges.
Author(s):
Dr. Irum Saba
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Urdu Language & LiteratureFatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi.
Pakistan
Dr. Muhammad Zahid Umar
LecturerPunjab College, Rawalpindi
Pakistan
Details:
| Type: | Article |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 21 |
| Language: | Urdu |
| Id: | 667eb6201d2ef |
| Pages | 20 - 35 |
| Discipline: | Language and Literature |
| Published | June 30, 2024 |

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.