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 Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Dimitrova, Diana (Editor), de Bruijn, Thomas (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesPalgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
Subjects
Social sciences.
Ethnology > Asia.
Ethnology.
Oriental literature.
Anthropology.
Cultural studies.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319410159
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-41015-9
Physical DescriptionXVI, 166 p. online resource.

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Table of 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 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. .

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