Literature and Nationalist Ideology

Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages
Herausgeber: Harder, Hans

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Writing histories of literature means making selections, passing value judgments, and incorporating or rejecting foregoing traditions. The book argues that in many parts of India, literary histories play an important role in creating a cultural ethos. They are closely linked with nationalism in general and various regional 'sub-nationalisms' in particular. The contributors to this volume look at a great variety of aspects of the historiography of modern regional languages of India. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 387
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781138502390
• ISBN-10: 1138502391
• Artikelnr.: 48850226

Autorenporträt

Hans Harder teaches Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction- Hans Harder 2. Shaping a Literary Space: Early Literary
Histories in Malayalam and Normative Uses of the Past- Udaya Kumar 3.
Drowning in the Ocean of Tamil: Islamic Texts and the Historiography
of Tamil Literature- Torsten Tschacher 4. From Scattered Archives to
the Centre of Discourse: Histories of Telegu Literature in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century- Heiko Frese 5. Beyond the nation: A
Comparatist's Yhoughts on Some Foundational Categories in the
Literary Historiography of South Asian Literatures- Ipshita Chanda 6.
Dineshchandra Sen's The Folk Literature of Bengal: The Canonisation
of Folk and the Conception of the Feminine- Sourav Kargupta 7.Ethics
or Aesthetics? Obscenity as a Category for Evaluating the Hindi
Public sphere in Colonial North India- Charu Gupta 8. George Abraham
Grierson's Literary Hindustan- Ira Sharma 9. The impact of Sectarian
Lobbyism on Hindi Literary Historiography: the Fascinating Story of
Bhagvadacharya Ramanandi- Purshottam Agrawal 10. The Politics of
Exclusion? The Place of Muslims, Urdu and its Literature in
Ramachandra Shukla's Hindi sahitya ka itihas- Navina Gupta 11. A
Discourse of Difference: 'Syncretism' as a Category in Indian
Literary History- Thomas de Brujin 12. Unscripted: The People of
Arunachal Pradesh in Literary and Other National Histories- Stuart
Blackburn 13. Indian Literature in English and the Problem of
Naturalisation- Hans Harder 14. The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist
Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in English- Snehal
Shingavi