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  1. Iqbal and Goethe : a note
    Author: Bhatti, Anil
    Published: 23.11.2011

    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... more

     

    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.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Article
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 830
    Subjects: Iqbal, Mohammed; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Ost-West-Beziehungen
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