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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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dimitrova, Diana (Editor), de Bruijn, Thomas (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
Subjects:
Asian Literature
Oriental Literature
Ethnology
Ethnology / Asia
Sociocultural Anthropology
Culture
Asian Culture
Culture / Study And Teaching
Cultural Studies
Anthropology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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