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Author | : Preetha Mani |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2022-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810145014 |
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Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relationship between language and literature, written in as well as against English. Examining canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories from the crucial decades surrounding decolonization, Mani contends that Indian literature must be understood as indeterminate, propositional, and reflective of changing dynamics between local, regional, national, and global readerships. In The Idea of Indian Literature, she explores the paradox that a single canon can be written in multiple languages, each with their own evolving relationships to one another and to English. Hindi, representing national aspirations, and Tamil, epitomizing the secessionist propensities of the region, are conventionally viewed as poles of the multilingual continuum within Indian literature. Mani shows, however, that during the twentieth century, these literatures were coconstitutive of one another and of the idea of Indian literature itself. The writers discussed here—from short-story forefathers Premchand and Pudumaippittan to women trailblazers Mannu Bhandari and R. Chudamani—imagined a pan-Indian literature based on literary, rather than linguistic, norms, even as their aims were profoundly shaped by discussions of belonging unique to regional identity. Tracing representations of gender and the uses of genre in the shifting thematic and aesthetic practices of short vernacular prose writing, the book offers a view of the Indian literary landscape as itself a field for comparative literature.
Author | : Vinayak Krishna Gokak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Indic literature |
ISBN | : |
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Description: This book offers a comprehensive as well as intensive scrutiny of the concept of Indian Literature. In a world which is shrinking fast and in which the notion of world literature is itself a compelling need a national literature has to be envisaged in clear outline. Unifying forces like those of the modern and the new poetic consciousness are making a perceptible impact on world literature. The mutual impact of East and West itself brings out in sharp relief the unity of World Literature. Starting with the idea of a federal political structure and the imprint it leaves on national literature, a comparison is instituted here between American and Indian Literature on the one hand and Indian and Russian literature on the other and the unique character of Indian Literature underlined in this way. The reader is invited to consider a new academic discipline under literature, -the unity of World Literature from an Indian standpoint.
Author | : P. Lal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Indic literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : P. Lal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Indic literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sunil Khilnani |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780374525910 |
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"In his new introduction, Khilnani addresses these issues in the new perspectives afforded by events of the recent year in India and in the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Francesca Orsini |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783741023 |
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Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. The texts and practices are contextualized in relation to the broader social and political background in which they emerged, showing how religious affiliations, caste dynamics and political concerns played a role in shaping social identities as well as aesthetic sensibilities. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of story-telling. The book also contains links to audio files of some of the works discussed in the text. Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and story-telling.
Author | : Terence Day |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0889208387 |
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Early textual source of the vast body of Dharmasastra literature of India on religion, law, and morality contain numerous statements that present or imply an undefined conception of punishment. Yet nowhere is this conception formally defined, as if knowledge of its nature and structure were generally known. In this “first-ever” attempt to provide a definition of the conception and to recover its ideational infrastructure, the author has drawn on these sources to reconstruct the theoretical backgrounds of its distinctive metaphysical, religious, juridical, social, and moral components. He shows that the conception is “the totality of correction principles, powers, agents, processes, and operations through which acts contrary to the Universal Order are counteracted and compensated.” The volume contains extensive documentation, a glossary of Sanskrit terms, a selected bibliography, and an index.
Author | : Suresh Kohli |
Publisher | : Vikas Publishing House Private |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1628721596 |
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In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.
Author | : P. Lal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1973-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780882533032 |
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