Modern Indian Literature

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375713002

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The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri Pdf

In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today’s brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs. The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in English but also in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. They include Rabindranath Tagore, arguably the first international literary celebrity, chronicling the wistful relationship between a village postal inspector and a servant girl, and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, represented by an excerpt from his classic novel about an impoverished Bengali childhood, Pather Panchali. Here, too, are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, R. K. Narayan’s The English Teacher, and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a Bombay policier as gripping as anything by Ed McBain. Never before has so much of the subcontinent’s writing been made available in a single volume.

Author : Preetha Mani
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : OCLC:1308712963

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Modern Indian Literature. A Panoramic Glimpse by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0330343645

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The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri Pdf

Translations from Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and the South sit alongside writing in English, bringing to light the greatest and most engaging writers from India's recent history. With introductions to the writers and their work, this is an electic and enlightening anthology of Indian writing.

Author : Krishna Kripalani
Publisher : Bombay : Nirmala Sadanand Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034813001

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Modern Indian Literature by Krishna Kripalani Pdf

Author : K. M. George
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8172013248

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Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems by K. M. George Pdf

This Is The First Of Three-Volume Anthology Of Writings In Twenty-Two Indian Languages, Including English, That Intends To Present The Wonderful Diversities Of Themes And Genres Of Indian Literature. This Volume Comprises Representative Specimens Of Poems From Different Languages In English Translation, Along With Perceptive Surveys Of Each Literature During The Period Between 1850 And 1975.

Author : K. M. George
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8172017839

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Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Plays and prose by K. M. George Pdf

This Volume Is Devoted To Plays And Prose Writings, The Task Of Bringing Together Samples Of The Best Of Modern Indian Writing Is Now Complete. The Translations Have Been Done By A Competent Team And Are Sure To Appeal To Lovers Of Literature

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:647920321

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Modern Indian literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hans Harder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351384353

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Literature and Nationalist Ideology by Hans Harder Pdf

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

Author : Heidi R.M. Pauwels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134062553

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Indian Literature and Popular Cinema by Heidi R.M. Pauwels Pdf

This book considers the popular cinema of North India (Bollywood) and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of elite culture, exploring gender issues and the perceived sexism of popular films and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film.

Author : Rossella Ciocca,Neelam Srivastava
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137545503

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Indian Literature and the World by Rossella Ciocca,Neelam Srivastava Pdf

This book is about the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. It examines multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation on an “Indian” literary canon, and Indian authors’ engagement with the public sphere. The essays cover political activism and the North-East Tribal novel; the role of work in the contemporary Indian fictional imaginary; history as felt and reconceived by the acclaimed Hindi author Krishna Sobti; Bombay fictions; the Dalit autobiography in translation and its problematic international success; development, ecocriticism and activist literature; casteism and access to literacy in the South; and gender and diaspora as dominant themes in writing from and about the subcontinent. Troubling Eurocentric genre distinctions and the split between citizen and subject, the collection approaches Indian literature from the perspective of its constant interactions between private and public narratives, thereby proposing a method of reading Indian texts that goes beyond their habitual postcolonial identifications as “national allegories”.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004264489

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Culture and Circulation by Anonim Pdf

Culture and Circulation reflects an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary genres and social milieus, capturing elements that have eluded traditional literary history. In this book, jointly edited by Thomas de Bruijn and Allison Busch, Hindi authors rub shoulders with their Persian counterparts in the courts of Mughal India; the fame of Mirabai, a poetess from Rajasthan, travels to Punjab; the sayings of Kabir are found to be as difficult to pin down as the holy men who transmitted them. Drawing on new archives in several Indian languages, Culture and Circulation presents fresh ideas that will be of interest to scholars of Indian literature, religious studies, and early modern history. Contributors include Stefano Pellò,Thibaut d'Hubert,Corinne Lefèvre, John Stratton Hawley, Gurinder Singh Mann, Thomas de Bruijn, Catharina Kiehnle, Allison Busch, Francesca Orsini, Heidi Pauwels, Robert van de Walle.

Author : K. M. George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015022918562

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Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Fiction by K. M. George Pdf

This Volume Is Devoted To Fiction Mirrors The Range And Variety Of The Creative Upsurge In The Novel And Short Story In Colonial And Post Colonial India. The Book Attempts To Capture The Very Essence Of Our National Renaissance And The Consequent Search For Identity As Reflected In Our Fiction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : 0195651189

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Modern Indian Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vasudha Dalmia,Rashmi Sadana
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825467

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture by Vasudha Dalmia,Rashmi Sadana Pdf

India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail social divisions, customs, communications and daily life. In a series of engaging, erudite and occasionally moving essays the contributors, drawn from a variety of disciplines, examine not merely what constitutes modern Indian culture, but just how wide-ranging are the cultures that persist in the regions of India. This volume will help the reader understand the continuities and fissures within Indian culture and some of the conflicts arising from them. Throughout, what comes to the fore is the extraordinary richness and diversity of modern Indian culture.