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Title
Imagining Indianness : cultural identity and literature / Diana Dimitrova, Thomas de Bruijn, editors.
ISBN
9783319410159 (electronic bk.)
3319410156 (electronic bk.)
9783319410142
3319410148
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-41015-9 doi
Call Number
PK5410.I48 I43 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.8954
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 interpretation of identity and "Indianness" 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 "Indianness", as revealed in the literatures and cultures of India.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Palgrave studies in literary anthropology.
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 Nayī Kahānī
Chapter 4. Imagining "Indianness" and modern Hindi drama
Chapter 5. The Indian contexts and subtexts of my text
Chapter 6. Kishorilal Gosvami's Indumatī
Chapter 7. Indianness, absurdism, existentialism, and the work of imagination: Vinod Kumar Shukla's Naukar kā kamīz
Chapter 8. 'Subah kī sair' and 'Dūsrī duniyā', two short stories by Nirmal Varma.
