Transcreation and Postcolonial Knowledge

A reading of Qurratulain Hyder’s engagement with neoclassicism, colonial, and nationalist archaeology, in her two Urdu novels Akhir-i-Shab ke Humsafar and Ag ka Darya, which she substantially rewrote in her own English translations, Fireflies in the Mist and River of Fire, framed through a discussion of translation and the term she uses to describe River of Fire, “transcreation.”