Sumanyu Satpathy

Modernity, Print and Sahitya

The Making of a New Literary Culture, 1866-1919

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Produktbeschreibung

The advent of print heralded a significant chapter in the history of colonial modernity in South Asia. This book narrates the story of the emergence of a new literary culture, Utkal sahitya or Odia literature, in the context of similar but conflicting linguistic-territorial cultures of Eastern India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781032346564
• ISBN-10: 1032346566
• Artikelnr.: 67823937

Autorenporträt

Sumanyu Satpathy is Former Professor and Head of the Department of English, University of Delhi, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Sahitya in Times of Crisis: Transformations in a Literary
Field 2. Print, Periodicals and the Odia Public Sphere 3. Reappraisals and
Renewals: The Ancient versus the Modern 4. Mapping the Terrain and
Legitimising the Past: The Carving of "Utkal Sahitya" 5. Towards the
Shaping of a Moral Community 6. Odia Literary Modernity: Consolidations 7.
Conclusion