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Author:   MK Raghavendra
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781032695785

ISBN 10:   1032695781
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   16 April 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Reading modern Indian ‘bhasha’ literature; Part 1: The nation and its ethnicities; 1. Literature for Performance; 2. Constructing a Syncretic History; 3. The Meaning of life; 4. Failure and Middle-class life; 5. Essentializing the Marginalized; 6. The Private as Public; 7. The Polarization of Social Experience; Part 2: Modernity and its effects; 8. Breaking Taboos; 9. Modernity and Interiority;10 Unstable Hybrid; 11. Outward Profusion, Inner Silence; 12. Another Modernity; 13. Literary Modernism and the Community; 14. Living in the World; Part 3: Gender and the position of women; 15. Nation of Women; 16. Tradition, Privilege and Gender; 17. ‘Eternal’ Womanhood; Part 4: The experience of caste; 18. Literature and Testimony; 19. View from Under; 20. The Nostalgia of the Small Farmer; 21. Lost Authority, Soft Power; 22. The Myth of Varna; Part 5: Humanism and authorial discourse; 23. The Popular Writer and Literature; 24. Humanism without Politics; 25. A Tapestry called Humanity; Afterword: Patterns in Bhasha Writing

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MK Raghavendra is a cultural, literary and film critic and scholar with political discourse as the focus in his analyses. He won the National Award for Best Film critic and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship to study narration in Indian popular cinema. He has published 11 books on cinema from international publishers and contributed essays to anthologies and journals. He has also authored a book on politics The Hindu Nation: A Reconciliation with Modernity and two books of literary criticism from Routledge. His writing has been translated into Polish and French and two books also into Russian.

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