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Imagining Indianness : Cultural Identity and Literature /

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...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Dimitrova, Diana; Bruijn, Thomas de
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
Subjects:
Social sciences
Ethnology > Asia
Ethnology
Oriental literature
Anthropology
Cultural studies
Asian Culture
Asian Literature
Cultural anthropology
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41015-9
Summary: 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 inte
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XV,410pages).
ISBN: 9783319410159
Index Number: HM545
CLC: I350.06
Contents: 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 Nay Kah n -- Chapter 4. Imagining Indianness and modern Hindi drama -- Chapter 5. The Indian contexts and subtexts of my text -- Chapter 6. Kishorilal Gosvami s Indumat -- Chapter 7. Indianness, absurdism, existentialism, and the work of imagination: Vinod Kumar Shukla s Naukar k kam z -- Chapter 8. Subah k sair and D sr duniy , two short stories by Nirmal Varma. .

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