Mk Raghavendra

The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature (eBook, PDF)

Implicit and Symptomatic Readings

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040017586
• Artikelnr.: 70019354

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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