Author: Preetha Mani
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810145014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 413
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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 Idea of Indian Literature
Diabetes Literature Index
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Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Pages : 636
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Indian Literature
Author: K. C. Dutt
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Languages : en
Pages : 491
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Pages : 491
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Annual Literary Index
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Indian Literary Index
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Category : Indic literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Indic literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections
Author: Ayyappappanikkar
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126003655
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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This Volume Has Two Parts, Surveys Of All The Languages And Selections From Three Languages Assamese, Bengali And Dogri.
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126003655
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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This Volume Has Two Parts, Surveys Of All The Languages And Selections From Three Languages Assamese, Bengali And Dogri.
Index to Indian Periodical Literature
Author: Syed Mohammed Ali
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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Languages : en
Pages : 401
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An Index to Current Literature
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Diabetes-Related Literature Index by Authors and by Key Words In the Title
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Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Cumulative Index to `Indian Literature'
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