Iqbal and Goethe : A Note
The recourse to Goethe plays an important role in the work of Mohammad Iqbal (1873-1938), one of the few important writers from the Indian subcontinent who knew German literature. Iqbal situates his own writing in the context of western colonial expansion and the corresponding world-historical loss of power of Islam in the East. The recourse to Goethe becomes an import reference point in his work. It enables him to stylise himself as a Messenger of the East in reply to Goethe as a representative of the West. By establishing a comparative cultural constellation with his German predecessor Iqbal affirms a cultural position consisting of a mode of historical complaint and cultural revival.
| Author: | Anil Bhatti |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-233499 |
| URL: | http://www.goethezeitportal.de/fileadmin/PDF/db/wiss/goethe/bhatti_iqbal.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Goethezeitportal |
| Publisher: | Goethezeitportal |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 23.11.2011 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Iqbal, Mohammed; Ost-West-Beziehungen |
| Pagenumber: | 15 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 15 |
| Institutes: | Extern |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur |
| Sammlungen: | GiNDok |
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| BDSL-Klassifikation: | BDSL-Klassifikation: 13.00.00 Goethezeit > 13.14.00 Zu einzelnen Autoren |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
