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The Idea of Indian Literature

Author : Preetha Mani
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810145014
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Indian Literature written by Preetha Mani and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417709403
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Indian Literature and the World

Author : Rossella Ciocca
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113754550X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Indian Literature and the World written by Rossella Ciocca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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”.

Indian Literature: An Introduction

Author : University of Delhi
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 8131776085
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Indian Literature: An Introduction written by University of Delhi and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Literature: An Introduction is the first ever bilingual collection that includes some of the most significant writing in Indian Literature from its beginnings more than four thousand years ago to the present. It includes selections from the epics, drama, the novel, poems, a letter, an essay and short stories. The literary encounter is enriched with the juxtaposition of English and Hindi translation which set up a dialogue with the original language and between themselves.

The History of Indian Literature

Author : Albrecht Weber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The History of Indian Literature written by Albrecht Weber and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A history of Indian English literature

Author : Madhukar Krishna Naik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A history of Indian English literature written by Madhukar Krishna Naik and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Indian Literature, 500-1399

Author : Sisir Kumar Das
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
ISBN 13 : 9788126021710
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book A History of Indian Literature, 500-1399 written by Sisir Kumar Das and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Volume Deals With The First Nine Hundred Years Of The Medieval Period Of Indian Literary History.A History Of Indian Literature Is An Account Of The Literary Activities Of The Indian People Carried Through In Many Languages And Under Different Social Conditions. It Is The Story Of A Multilingual Literature, A Plurality Of Linguistic Expressions And Cultural Experience And Also Of The Remarkable Unity Underlying Them.

The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780330343640
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2002 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Indian Literature and Popular Cinema

Author : Heidi R.M. Pauwels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134062559
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Indian Literature and Popular Cinema written by Heidi R.M. Pauwels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A History of Indian Literature in English

Author : Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231128100
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book A History of Indian Literature in English written by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This volume surveys 200 years of Indian literature in English. Written by Indian scholars and critics, many of the 24 contributions examine the work of individual authors, such as Rabindranath Tagore, R.K. Narayan, and Salman Rushdie. Others consider a particular genre, such as post-independence poetry or drama. The volume is illustrated with b&w photographs of writers along with drawings and popular prints. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Literatures from Northeast India

Author : K M Baharul Islam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000578100
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Literatures from Northeast India written by K M Baharul Islam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases the diverse literary traditions from India’s Northeast and their shared connections and lineages. It critically analyses a selection of literary works from authors and poets from this region and the hegemonies of language, ethnicity and politics that have framed these voices. As a region with rich cultural and ethnolinguistic diversity, Northeast India’s literature is representative of varied histories, languages, socio-cultural and religious practices. The book highlights the distinct use of language, forms, cultural symbols and metaphors which articulates the unique experiences of conflict, beauty and culture in this area. Focussing on the translingual and transcultural aspects of these literary works it examines the dynamics between literature, language and their socio-cultural influences. The book pays attention to themes of representation, identity and power to showcase voices and perspectives of dissent, criticism and introspection. It explores contemporary critical approaches to literature from the Northeast, by re-examining the idea of the centre and the periphery and the position of subaltern literary voices. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of literature, language, cultural studies, postcolonial studies and South Asian studies.

Writing India, Writing English

Author : G. J. V. Prasad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317809122
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Writing India, Writing English written by G. J. V. Prasad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contemporary Literature from Northeast India

Author : Amit R. Baishya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429944454
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Literature from Northeast India written by Amit R. Baishya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northeast Indian borderlands, a cultural crossroads between South, Southeast and East Asia, constitute an important post-colonial exception to the narratives of nation, troubling the common perception of India as an ostensibly liberal regime. This book is the first to consider the representations of the effects of political terror and survival in contemporary literature from Northeast India. Fictions from this polyglot region offer alternative representations that show the post-colonial nation-state to engage in acts of aggression that parallel colonial regimes. The militarization of everyday life and the subsequent growth of cultures of impunity has left a lasting impact on ordinary existence in this border zone. Like in the much more widely discussed case of Kashmir, the governance of the Northeast region is not characterized so much by the management of life, the domain of what Michel Foucault calls biopolitics, but rather around the preponderance and distribution of death, what the postcolonial critic Achille Mbembe calls necropolitics. Not surprisingly, along with Mbembe’s theorizations, the influential works of the Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, on 'bare life' have provided fruitful pathways to a study of the sovereign politics of death and political terror in this region. The author draws upon the conceptual literature on political terror and sovereign power through a reading of Anglophone fictions alongside Assamese fictional narratives (all published after 1990), but shifts the onus from the 'why' of violence to the 'how' of lived experience. An original study of contemporary survivalist fictions that explores survival under conditions of civil and military threat, this book is a valuable contribution to the field of contemporary global literature focusing on cartographies of death and sovereign terror and postcolonial literature.

The Great Indian Novel

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628721596
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Great Indian Novel written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.

The Making of Indian English Literature

Author : Subhendu Mund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000434230
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Indian English Literature written by Subhendu Mund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of Indian English Literature brings together seventeen well-researched essays of Subhendu Mund with a long introduction by the author historicising the development of the Indian writing in English while exploring its identity among the many appellations tagged to it. The volume demonstrates, contrary to popular perceptions, that before the official introduction of English education in India, Indians had already tried their hands in nearly all forms of literature: poetry, fiction, drama, essay, biography, autobiography, book review, literary criticism and travel writing. Besides translation activities, Indians had also started editing and publishing periodicals in English before 1835. Through archival research the author brings to discussion a number of unknown and less discussed texts which contributed to the development of the genre. The work includes exclusive essays on such early poets and writers as Kylas Chunder Dutt, Shoshee Chunder Dutt, Toru Dutt, Mirza Moorad Alee Beg, Krupabai Satthianadhan, Swami Vivekananda, H. Dutt, and Sita Chatterjee; and historiographical studies on the various aspects of the genre. The author also examines the strategies used by the early writers to indianise the western language and the form of the novel. The present volume also demonstrates how from the very beginning Indian writing in English had a subtle nationalist agenda and created a space for protest literature. The Making of Indian English Literature will prove an invaluable addition to the studies in Indian writing in English as a source of reference and motivation for further research. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Reading India Now

Author : Ulka Anjaria
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439916643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Reading India Now written by Ulka Anjaria and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of social media and reality television, reading and consumption habits in India now demand homegrown pulp fictions. Ulka Anjaria categorizes post-2000 Indian literature and popular culture as constituting “the contemporary,” a movement defined by new and experimental forms—where high- and low-brow meet, and genres break down. Reading India Now studies the implications of this developing trend as both the right-wing resurges and marginalized voices find expression. Anjaria explores the fiction of Chetan Bhagat and Anuja Chauhan as well as Aamir Khan’s television talk show, Satyamev Jayate, plus the work of documentarian Paromita Vohra, to argue how different kinds of texts are involved in imagining new political futures for an India in transition. Contemporary literature and popular culture in India might seem artless and capitalistic, but it is precisely its openness to the world outside that allows these new works to offer significant insight into the experiences and sensibilities of contemporary India.

The God of Small Things

Author : Arundhati Roy
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030737467X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.