Abstract
There have been two kinds of opinions since debate started in Urdu regarding
Post-modernism or theory. On one hand, some writers 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 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 original literary writings did not have any benefit from these books. On the
other hand are those 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. On Dr. Aziz
Ibn-ul-Hasan's instruction, I attended to that and started identifying modern and
post-modern theories from the writings of Kaleemuddin Ahmed. strangely
enough, I was able to find about all the modern critical theories in his writings.
By this, the writer believes that those people were right who claimed that the
West was selling old theories to us with new names. Sadly, we have forgotten
our own people. We do not like our own learned men, thinkers, writers, poets,
critics, artists and artisans. We do not like our own genres, our own civilization,
or any other of our things. We like to see to the West on the first available
pretext. We like to see those who do not like to see us. So we need to read our
own Eastern writers, poets and critics and try to find guiding principles from
their writings for our own creative writings and criticism, and to explore new
vistas for reading. That is what, I believe, the need of the hour is.
Muhammad Ashraf Mughal. (2018) Modernistic and Postmodernistic Features in Kalimuddin Ahmad’s Criticism, Mayar , Volume 19-20 , Issue 1 .
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