Literary Sentiments In The Vernacular

Author : Charu Gupta,Laura Brueck,Hans Harder,Shobna Nijhawan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000511185

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Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular by Charu Gupta,Laura Brueck,Hans Harder,Shobna Nijhawan Pdf

This collection brings together nine essays, accompanied by nine short translations that expand the assumptions that have typically framed literary histories, and creatively re-draws their boundaries, both temporally and spatially. The essays, rooted in the humanities and informed by interdisciplinary area studies, explore multiple linkages between forms of print culture, linguistic identities, and diverse vernacular literary spaces in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. The accompanying translations—from Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Urdu—not only round out these scholarly explorations and comparisons, but invite readers to recognise the assiduous, intimate, and critical labour of expanding access to the vernacular archive, while also engaging with the challenges—linguistic, cultural, and political—of rendering vernacular articulations of gendered experience and embodiment in English. Collectively, the essays and translations foreground complex and politicised expressions of gender and genre in fictional and non-fictional print materials and thus draw meaningful connections between the vernacular and literature, the everyday and the marginals, and gender and sentiment. They expand vernacular literary archives, canons and genealogies, and push us to theorise the nature of writing in South Asia. Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular is a significant new contribution to South Asian literary history and gender studies, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of History, Literature, Cultural Studies, Politics, and Sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

Author : Dr.S.Prabahar
Publisher : Shanlax Publications
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788119042197

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National Conference on Local Color Literature by Dr.S.Prabahar Pdf

Author : Preetha Mani
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810145016

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The Idea of Indian Literature by Preetha Mani Pdf

Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relationship between language and literature, written in as well as against English. Examining canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories from the crucial decades surrounding decolonization, Mani contends that Indian literature must be understood as indeterminate, propositional, and reflective of changing dynamics between local, regional, national, and global readerships. In The Idea of Indian Literature, she explores the paradox that a single canon can be written in multiple languages, each with their own evolving relationships to one another and to English. Hindi, representing national aspirations, and Tamil, epitomizing the secessionist propensities of the region, are conventionally viewed as poles of the multilingual continuum within Indian literature. Mani shows, however, that during the twentieth century, these literatures were coconstitutive of one another and of the idea of Indian literature itself. The writers discussed here—from short-story forefathers Premchand and Pudumaippittan to women trailblazers Mannu Bhandari and R. Chudamani—imagined a pan-Indian literature based on literary, rather than linguistic, norms, even as their aims were profoundly shaped by discussions of belonging unique to regional identity. Tracing representations of gender and the uses of genre in the shifting thematic and aesthetic practices of short vernacular prose writing, the book offers a view of the Indian literary landscape as itself a field for comparative literature.

Author : Akshya Saxena
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9780691223131

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Vernacular English by Akshya Saxena Pdf

"After India's Partition and independence in 1947, "cleansing" Hindi by removing Urdu words was part of the nation's effort to disavow Islamic influence and to forge an exclusively Hindu "Indian" identity. Sanskritized Hindi was anointed the official language of India in 1950, a move protested by non-Hindi-speaking people; in 1963, lawmakers responded to these protests by making English an associate official language. Itself a language steeped in a history of colonial violence, English nevertheless was chosen to mend the gaps created by the imposition of Hindi and to uphold the ideal of democracy. This book considers English as part of the multilingual local milieu of India (a country where more than twenty languages are spoken) not as a colonial language imposed from without. Through a close study of English in India, from the language policies under British rule to the present day, Akshya Saxena argues that low castes and minority ethnic groups-those oppressed by or denied access to English-have routinely and effectively used the language to make political demands on the state. The book examines the ways that Indians use English in literary, spoken, and visual media, from novels to films to global protest movements, to express and shape their experience within the Indian state"--

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0253215269

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Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana by Stephanie Newell Pdf

". . . a book that will break new ground in African cultural studies. . . . [it] will appeal not only to literary scholars but also to social historians and cultural anthropologists." —Karin Barber Focusing on the broad educational aims of the colonial administration and missionary societies, Stephanie Newell draws on newspaper archives, early unofficial texts, and popular sources to uncover how Africans used literacy to carve out new cultural, social, and economic spaces for themselves. Newly literate Africans not only shaped literary tastes in colonial Africa but also influenced how and where English was spoken; established standards for representations of gender, identity, and morality; and created networks for African literary production, dissemination, and reception throughout British West Africa. Newell reveals literacy and reading as powerful social forces that quickly moved beyond the missionary agenda and colonial regulation. A fascinating literary, social, and cultural history of colonial Ghana, Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana sheds new light on understandings of the African colonial experience and the development of postcolonial cultures in West Africa.

Author : James Scarth Gale
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487504342

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Redemption and Regret by James Scarth Gale Pdf

This work presents the unpublished and largely unknown writings of the missionary James Scarth Gale, one of the most important scholars and translators in modern Korean history.

Author : Xiaohong Zhou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789811049866

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Inner Experience of the Chinese People by Xiaohong Zhou Pdf

This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation. Chinese feeling, a brand-new concept corresponding to Chinese experience, refers to the vicissitudes that 1.3 billion Chinese people have been through in their spiritual worlds. The book discusses this concept together with Chinese experience, two aspects of the transformation of the Chinese mentality that resulted from the unprecedented social changes since 1978, and which have given this unique era historical meaning and cultural values. At the same time they offer a dual perspective for understanding this great social transition. Further, the book considers what will happen if we only focus on the “Chinese Experience” while neglecting the “Chinese Feeling”; the changes the Chinese people undergo when their desires, wishes and personalities have changed China; and how their emotionally charged social mentality follow ebbs and flows of the changing society. Lastly it asks what embarrassment and frustration the population will be faced with next after the tribulations their spiritual world has already been through.

Author : G. Zhou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230117044

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Placing the Modern Chinese Vernacular in Transnational Literature by G. Zhou Pdf

This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia.

Author : Nishat Zaidi,Hans Harder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000930429

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Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia by Nishat Zaidi,Hans Harder Pdf

This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of the regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis-à-vis English. It explores how language ideologies of the “vernacular” are positioned in relation to the language ideologies of English in South Asia. The book probes into how we might move beyond the English-vernacular binary in India, explores what happened to “bhasha literatures” during the colonial and post-colonial periods and how to position those literatures by the side of Indian English and international literature. It looks into the ways vernacular community and political rhetoric are intertwined with Anglophone (national or global) positionalities and their roles in political processes. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and scholars of literary and cultural studies, Indian Writing in English, Indian literatures, South Asian languages and popular culture. It will also be extremely valuable for language scholars, sociolinguists, social historians, scholars of cultural studies and those who understand the theoretical issues that concern the notion of “vernacularity”.

Author : T'aejun Yi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231149457

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Eastern Sentiments by T'aejun Yi Pdf

Yi T'aejun was a prolific and influential writer of colonial Korea, and an acknowledged master of the short story and essay. Born in northern Korea in 1904, Yi T'aejun settled in Seoul after a restless youth that included several years of study in Japan. In 1946, he moved to Soviet-occupied North Korea, but was caught up in a purge of southern communists and forced into internal exile a decade later. It is believed Yi T'aejun passed away sometime between 1960 and 1980. His works were banned in South Korea until 1988, when censorship laws concerning authors who had sided with the north were eased. The essays in this collection reflect Yi's distinct voice and lyrical expression, revealing his thoughts on a variety of subjects, ranging from gardens to immigrant villages in Manchuria, from antiques to colonial assimilation, and from fishing to the recovery of Korea's past. Written when fascism threatened the absorption of every Korean into Japan's wartime regime, Yi's essays explore the arts and daily life of precolonial times and attempt to bring that past back to life in his present. A final long essay takes the reader through Manchuria, where Yi laments the scattering of Koreans throughout the Japanese empire while celebrating human perseverance in the face of loss and change.

Author : Samarpita Mitra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004427082

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Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Samarpita Mitra Pdf

Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture is a study of literary periodicals and the Bengali public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century, the variety of interests and concerns that animated this domain and how literary relations were seen to constitute new social solidarities.

Author : Kwang-su Yi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781942242277

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Mujong (The Heartless) by Kwang-su Yi Pdf

Author : Xiaoqing Diana Lin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791483916

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Peking University by Xiaoqing Diana Lin Pdf

Discusses the first decades of Peking University and its role in shaping Chinese intellectual culture.

Author : Lijing Jiang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811077708

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Educational Memory of Chinese Female Intellectuals in Early Twentieth Century by Lijing Jiang Pdf

This book studies three female Chinese intellectuals in the first half of the 20th century, namely Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin, and Cheng Junying, the first graduates of Beijing Female Higher Normal College, which was the first-ever national higher educational institution for women in modern China. Combining narrative inquiry, life history, oral history, and psychohistory methods, it comprehensively explores the specific developmental paths and mental processes of the post-May Fourth female intellectuals, and examines the complex interrelationships between various factors including social, academic, gender, and educational evolution in the first half of the 20th century, and the emergence of modern Chinese female intellectuals. The book is highly recommended for all scholars, undergraduate and graduate students of modern Chinese history, gender and women’s studies, history of education, history of higher education, etc., and for all those who are interested in female Chinese intellectuals.

Author : Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1504 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135455309

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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies by Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.