Imagining Indianness Cultural Identity and Literature
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2018
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783319822419
Publisert
2018-07-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer International Publishing AG
HĂžyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
AldersnivÄ
Research, P, 06
SprÄk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Biographical note
Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004), Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama (2008), and Hinduism and Hindi Theater (2016). She is the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010) and The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness (2014).Thomas de Bruijn is an independent scholar and author of Ruby in the Dust: History and Poetry in PadmÄvat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Muáž„ammad JÄyasÄ« (2012) and co-editor of Circulation of Culture: Literature in Motion in Early Modern India (2014).
âThis edited collection by Diana Dimitrova and Thomas de Bruijn is an important addition to the field since it brings debates and ideas of âIndiannessâ ⊠. Importantly, Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature is a timely publication as once again, we are called to consider more recent, post-millennial literary and cultural production and its interface with an ever-changing sense of âIndianness.ââ (E. Dawson Varughese, Asiatic, Vol. 11 (2), 2017)
This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The collection of essays examines questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and modern, while discussing the ideological implications of the interpretation of identity and âIndiannessâ and how they reflect and influence the power-structures of contemporary societies in South Asia. Thus, the book studies the various aspects of the on-going process of constructing, imagining, re-imagining, and narrating âIndiannessâ, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of India.
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This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature.
Chapter 1. Of many Indias: alternative nationhoods in contemporary Indian poetry.- Chapter 2. Reviewing Nirmal Varma, Jaidev and the Indianness of Indian Literature.- Chapter 3. Indianness as a category in literary criticism on NayÄ« KahÄnÄ«.- Chapter 4. Imagining âIndiannessâ and modern Hindi drama.- Chapter 5. The Indian contexts and subtexts of my text.- Chapter 6. Kishorilal Gosvamiâs IndumatÄ«.- Chapter 7. Indianness, absurdism, existentialism, and the work of imagination: Vinod Kumar Shuklaâs Naukar kÄ kamÄ«z.- Chapter 8. âSubah kÄ« sairâ and âDĆ«srÄ« duniyÄâ, two short stories by Nirmal Varma.Â
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This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The collection of essays examines questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and modern, while discussing the ideological implications of the interpretation of identity and âIndiannessâ and how they reflect and influence the power-structures of contemporary societies in South Asia. Thus, the book studies the various aspects of the on-going process of constructing, imagining, re-imagining, and narrating âIndiannessâ, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of India.
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First book to study Indianness in South Asia through literature and culture in a dialogical Bakhtinian way Pioneering project in the field of literature, culture, and anthropology Includes the work of internationally renowned scholars from across the globe Provides a unique look at works written in South Asian languages from different periods and regions
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783319822419
Publisert
2018-07-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer International Publishing AG
HĂžyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
AldersnivÄ
Research, P, 06
SprÄk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Biographical note
Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004), Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama (2008), and Hinduism and Hindi Theater (2016). She is the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010) and The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness (2014).Thomas de Bruijn is an independent scholar and author of Ruby in the Dust: History and Poetry in PadmÄvat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Muáž„ammad JÄyasÄ« (2012) and co-editor of Circulation of Culture: Literature in Motion in Early Modern India (2014).