THF Dialogues 3
Seeing Stories : Intertextuality in Art Practice
Gowhar Yaqoob and Huzaifa Pandit
Tuesday, 30th September
10:00 AM IST | At Kani House, Zakura, Srinagar
The third conversation in the THF Dialogues series brings together Gowhar Yaqoob and Huzaifa Pandit, for a lecture-presentation and workshop with a particular focus on myths and folklore.
Gowhar’s presentation discusses narrative strategies with a focus on local and cultural forms. The session highlights the importance of oral and performative traditions exemplifying how Kashmir’s origin myth has been reimagined and reinterpreted from time to time in Sanskrit, Persian and Kashmiri textual practices.
Huzaifa explores intertextuality through the work of three poets - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali and Mahmoud Darwish and how they create texture within their works, the kind of histories they draw upon and the affects they aim to evoke, interspersing writing exercises and language games to support his presentation.
Bios:
Gowhar Yaqoob writes on Kashmiri literature and arts. She has presented her work at various symposiums throughout India. She holds a PhD in Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies from the University of Delhi and has received fellowships from the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. A grant from the Indian Foundation for the Arts allowed her to recently study the socio-cultural and political context of Kashmiri poetry.
Huzaifa Pandit teaches English Literature at an Undergraduate college in Kashmir. For his PhD he worked on establishing a comparison between Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali and Mahmoud Darwish under the rubric of Poetics of Resistance’ at University of Kashmir. He has contributed papers on a wide range of themes centered around Kashmir like Translation and Dissent, Masculinity and Student Activism in journals and edited volumes like Himalya, Postcolonial Literature, Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies, and Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures. He also writes poetry in English and translates poetry from Urdu and Kashmiri into English. Some of his works have found home in magazines like PaperCuts, Jaggery Lit, Outlook and Poetry at Sangam. His book of poems – Green is the Colour of Memory appeared in 2018 from Hawakal Prosthana, Kolkata.