This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language literature after 1947 to cover such a wide range, including voices from the cultural margins of the nation like Kashmiri and Manipuri, that of women alongside those of minority and marginalized communities.
This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language literature after 1947 to cover such a wide range, including voices from the cultural margins of the nation like Kashmiri and Manipuri, that of women alongside those of minority and marginalized communities.
MK Raghavendra is a cultural, literary and film critic and scholar with political discourse as the focus in his analyses. He won the National Award for Best Film critic and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship to study narration in Indian popular cinema. He has published 11 books on cinema from international publishers and contributed essays to anthologies and journals. He has also authored a book on politics The Hindu Nation: A Reconciliation with Modernity and two books of literary criticism from Routledge. His writing has been translated into Polish and French and two books also into Russian.
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Introduction: Reading modern Indian 'bhasha' literature Part 1: The nation and its ethnicities 1. Literature for Performance 2. Constructing a Syncretic History 3. The Meaning of life 4. Failure and Middle-class life 5. Essentializing the Marginalized 6. The Private as Public 7. The Polarization of Social Experience Part 2: Modernity and its effects 8. Breaking Taboos 9. Modernity and Interiority 10 Unstable Hybrid 11. Outward Profusion, Inner Silence 12. Another Modernity 13. Literary Modernism and the Community 14. Living in the World Part 3: Gender and the position of women 15. Nation of Women 16. Tradition, Privilege and Gender 17. 'Eternal' Womanhood Part 4: The experience of caste 18. Literature and Testimony 19. View from Under 20. The Nostalgia of the Small Farmer 21. Lost Authority, Soft Power 22. The Myth of Varna Part 5: Humanism and authorial discourse 23. The Popular Writer and Literature 24. Humanism without Politics 25. A Tapestry called Humanity Afterword: Patterns in Bhasha Writing
Introduction: Reading modern Indian 'bhasha' literature Part 1: The nation and its ethnicities 1. Literature for Performance 2. Constructing a Syncretic History 3. The Meaning of life 4. Failure and Middle-class life 5. Essentializing the Marginalized 6. The Private as Public 7. The Polarization of Social Experience Part 2: Modernity and its effects 8. Breaking Taboos 9. Modernity and Interiority 10 Unstable Hybrid 11. Outward Profusion, Inner Silence 12. Another Modernity 13. Literary Modernism and the Community 14. Living in the World Part 3: Gender and the position of women 15. Nation of Women 16. Tradition, Privilege and Gender 17. 'Eternal' Womanhood Part 4: The experience of caste 18. Literature and Testimony 19. View from Under 20. The Nostalgia of the Small Farmer 21. Lost Authority, Soft Power 22. The Myth of Varna Part 5: Humanism and authorial discourse 23. The Popular Writer and Literature 24. Humanism without Politics 25. A Tapestry called Humanity Afterword: Patterns in Bhasha Writing
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