The Idea Of Indian Literature

Author : Preetha Mani
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 413 pages
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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 : Sujit Mukherjee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4556281

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The Idea of an Indian Literature by Sujit Mukherjee Pdf

Selection of articles, 1852-1977.

Author : Vinayak Krishna Gokak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3592259

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The Concept of Indian Literature by Vinayak Krishna Gokak Pdf

Description: This book offers a comprehensive as well as intensive scrutiny of the concept of Indian Literature. In a world which is shrinking fast and in which the notion of world literature is itself a compelling need a national literature has to be envisaged in clear outline. Unifying forces like those of the modern and the new poetic consciousness are making a perceptible impact on world literature. The mutual impact of East and West itself brings out in sharp relief the unity of World Literature. Starting with the idea of a federal political structure and the imprint it leaves on national literature, a comparison is instituted here between American and Indian Literature on the one hand and Indian and Russian literature on the other and the unique character of Indian Literature underlined in this way. The reader is invited to consider a new academic discipline under literature, -the unity of World Literature from an Indian standpoint.

Author : Sunil Khilnani
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0374537623

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The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani Pdf

A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that addresses the paradoxes and ironies of the world’s largest democracy. When, in 1947, the British divided and departed their most prized imperial possession, they handed a huge, diverse, and poor society to a small nationalist elite. For decades this elite would uphold a political construct, an idea of India grounded in democracy, religious tolerance, economic development, and cultural pluralism. Sunil Khilnani investigates the fate of this idea, offering incisive portraits of Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian founders and assessing the lively debates among them and their successors over who is an Indian, the meaning of modernity, and India’s place in the world. In a new introduction written for this edition, Khilnani reflects on the book’s striking relevance to the country’s recent developments—from the rise of a new billionaire class to the election of a government with a more exclusivist conception of Indian identity. Throughout, he provokes readers and illuminates a fundamental question as urgent now as ever: Can the original idea of India survive its own successes?

Author : P. Lal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : UOM:39015027335978

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The Concept of an Indian Literature by P. Lal Pdf

Author : Vinayak Krishna Gokak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : UOM:39015028705526

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The Concept of Indian Literature by Vinayak Krishna Gokak Pdf

Description: This book offers a comprehensive as well as intensive scrutiny of the concept of Indian Literature. In a world which is shrinking fast and in which the notion of world literature is itself a compelling need a national literature has to be envisaged in clear outline. Unifying forces like those of the modern and the new poetic consciousness are making a perceptible impact on world literature. The mutual impact of East and West itself brings out in sharp relief the unity of World Literature. Starting with the idea of a federal political structure and the imprint it leaves on national literature, a comparison is instituted here between American and Indian Literature on the one hand and Indian and Russian literature on the other and the unique character of Indian Literature underlined in this way. The reader is invited to consider a new academic discipline under literature, -the unity of World Literature from an Indian standpoint.

Author : Mukti Lakhi Mangharam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350200821

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Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture by Mukti Lakhi Mangharam Pdf

While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the Indian economy in the 1990s has led to a decline in freedom for many female, Dalit, and lower class Indians. This book explores the contraction of what it means to be free in post-liberalization India, examining how global capitalism has exacerbated existing inequalities based on traditional femininities and masculinities, while also creating new hierarchies. Freedom Inc. argues that post-1990s literature and culture frequently represents and reinforces the equation of free-market capitalism with individual freedom within the new 'idea of India.' However, many texts often also challenge this logic by pointing to more expansive horizons of autonomy for the gendered self. Through readings of texts as diverse as Dalit women's life-writing, pop fiction, realist novels, self-help, regional film, and Netflix TV shows, Mangharam investigates how notions like 'free trade,' 'entrepreneurship,' and 'self-help' are experienced, embodied, and challenged by disadvantaged peoples, and by women differently than men. In the process, Freedom Inc. explores how different literary forms illuminate alternative and buried pathways to fuller freedoms.

Author : Terence Day
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889208384

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The Conception of Punishment in Early Indian Literature by Terence Day Pdf

Early textual source of the vast body of Dharmasastra literature of India on religion, law, and morality contain numerous statements that present or imply an undefined conception of punishment. Yet nowhere is this conception formally defined, as if knowledge of its nature and structure were generally known. In this “first-ever” attempt to provide a definition of the conception and to recover its ideational infrastructure, the author has drawn on these sources to reconstruct the theoretical backgrounds of its distinctive metaphysical, religious, juridical, social, and moral components. He shows that the conception is “the totality of correction principles, powers, agents, processes, and operations through which acts contrary to the Universal Order are counteracted and compensated.” The volume contains extensive documentation, a glossary of Sanskrit terms, a selected bibliography, and an index.

Author : Chandra Mohan
Publisher : New Delhi : India Publishers & Distributors
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UOM:39015021597292

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Aspects of Comparative Literature by Chandra Mohan Pdf

Author : Gauri Shankar Jha
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 8126906227

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Current Perspectives in Indian English Literature by Gauri Shankar Jha Pdf

Indian Writing In English Has Undoubtedly Acquired Its Own Independent Identity; It No More Remains Mere Imitative And Derivative. Its Long Journey From Colonial To Post-Colonial, From Imperial To Democratic And From English To Hinglish Forms A Remarkable Chapter In The History Of World Literature. Tagore Earned The First Recognition And Naipaul Is The Recent Laureate. In Between These Nobel Laureates Came A Number Of Writers Whose Work Earned Worldwide Appreciation.The Present Book Is An Attempt To Present The Different Genres Of Indian Writing In English. It Aims At Tracing Its Distinctive Features, Such As Cultural Alienation, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism Etc. While Nehru Has Furnished The Best English To The Globe, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, Arundhati Roy, Shiv K. Kumar And Dattani Have Stirred The West With Their Great Works. The Works Of These Renowned Literary Figures Have Been Considered Thoroughly And Meticulously In The Present Book.It Is Hoped That While The Student Community Will Find It Easily Accessible, The Teachers Will Also Consider It Exciting Study Material.

Author : Suresh Kohli
Publisher : Delhi : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Indian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015010460718

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Aspects of Indian Literature by Suresh Kohli Pdf

Author : Gajendra Kumar
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 8176252409

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Indian English Literature by Gajendra Kumar Pdf

Author : Aijaz Ahmad
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781844672134

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In Theory by Aijaz Ahmad Pdf

After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin America and the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference and the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement, many of Europe’s former colonies banded together to form a common bloc, aligned with neither the advanced capitalist “First World” nor with the socialist “Second World.” In this historical context, the category of “Third World literature” emerged, a category that has itself spawned a whole industry of scholarly and critical studies, particularly in the metropolitan West, but increasingly in the homelands of the Third World itself. Setting himself against the growing tendency to homogenize “Third World” literature and cultures, Aijaz Ahmad has produced a spirited critique of the major theoretical statements on “colonial discourse” and “post-colonialism,” dismantling many of the commonplaces and conceits that dominate contemporary cultural criticism. With lengthy considerations of, among others, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and the Subaltern Studies group, In Theory also contains brilliant analyses of the concept of Indian literature, of the genealogy of the term “Third World,” and of the conditions under which so-called “colonial discourse theory” emerged in metropolitan intellectual circles. Erudite and lucid, Ahmad’s remapping of the terrain of cultural theory is certain to provoke passionate response.

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417709405

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The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri Pdf

Chaudhuri's extravagant and discerning collection unfurls the full diversity of Indian writing from the 1850s to the present in English, and in elegant new translations from Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. Among the 38 authors represented are contemporary superstars such as Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Pankaj Mishra.

Author : G. J. V. Prasad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317809128

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Writing India, Writing English by G. J. V. Prasad Pdf

The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The essays emphasise on the emergence of the hybrid language in the Tamil cultural world because of the presence of English (and Hindi); on the politics of ‘anthologisation’; and how Karnad’s Tughlaq deals with the idea of the nation, looking at its historical location. The second part of the book focuses on Indian English literature and deals with how it interacts with the idea of representing the Indian nation, sometimes obsessively, seen both in poetry and novels. The book argues that the writer’s location is crucial to the world of imagination, whether in the novel, poetry or drama. The world is inflected by the location of the author, and the struggle between the language dominant in that location and English is part of the creative tension that provides energy and uniqueness to writing.