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Inlays of Subjectivity - Dr. Nikhil (Associate Professor and Head Govind - Bog

- Affect and Action in Modern Indian Literature

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This book discusses the question of subjectivity in modern Indian literature using some of the most influential literary texts of the last hundred years. Scholarship in Indian literature tends to be divided along the lines of region, language, historical period, class, caste and so on. However, this book, by foregrounding a conceptΓÇö-subjectivityΓÇö-allows the concept to determine the architecture of the book. Thus there are chapters on the various modes ofsubjectivityΓÇö-a sense of ethical subjectivity is often awakened by a fierce sense of injustice, and the first two chapters discuss this, in the context of a contemporary Malayalam novel by KR Meera, and Urmila Pawar''s memoir about her Dalit identity. The next two chapters delve into the literary history ofselfhood in IndiaΓÇö-canonical writers such as the Hindi novelist Agyeya, the Urdu novelist Ismat Chughtai, and the Bengali novelists Saratchandra Chatterjee and RabindranathTagore are discussed. The last chapter revisits these concerns through the many voices employed by the Hindi novelist Krishna Sobti, whose career straddles the second half of the twentieth century.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780199498727
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 224
  • Udgivet:
  • 14. november 2019
  • Størrelse:
  • 146x223x21 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 318 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..
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This book discusses the question of subjectivity in modern Indian literature using some of the most influential literary texts of the last hundred years. Scholarship in Indian literature tends to be divided along the lines of region, language, historical period, class, caste and so on. However, this book, by foregrounding a conceptΓÇö-subjectivityΓÇö-allows the concept to determine the architecture of the book. Thus there are chapters on the various modes ofsubjectivityΓÇö-a sense of ethical subjectivity is often awakened by a fierce sense of injustice, and the first two chapters discuss this, in the context of a contemporary Malayalam novel by KR Meera, and Urmila Pawar''s memoir about her Dalit identity. The next two chapters delve into the literary history ofselfhood in IndiaΓÇö-canonical writers such as the Hindi novelist Agyeya, the Urdu novelist Ismat Chughtai, and the Bengali novelists Saratchandra Chatterjee and RabindranathTagore are discussed. The last chapter revisits these concerns through the many voices employed by the Hindi novelist Krishna Sobti, whose career straddles the second half of the twentieth century.

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