Overview
- First book to study Indianness in South Asia through literature and culture in a dialogical Bakhtinian way
- Pioneering project in the field of literature, culture, and anthropology
- Includes the work of internationally renowned scholars from across the globe
- Provides a unique look at works written in South Asian languages from different periods and regions
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology (PSLA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Indianness, Literature and Culture: A Critical Perspective
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Indian Cultural Identity and the Crisis of Modernity: Reworking of Myth and Tradition
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About this book
This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The collection of essays examines questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and modern, while discussing the ideological implications of the interpretation of identity and “Indianness” and how they reflect and influence the power-structures of contemporary societies in South Asia. Thus, the book studies the various aspects of the on-going process of constructing, imagining, re-imagining, and narrating “Indianness”, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of India.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas de Bruijn is an independent scholar and author of Ruby in the Dust: History and Poetry in Padmāvat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Muḥammad Jāyasī (2012) and co-editor of Circulation of Culture: Literature in Motion in Early Modern India (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imagining Indianness
Book Subtitle: Cultural Identity and Literature
Editors: Diana Dimitrova, Thomas de Bruijn
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41015-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41014-2Published: 20 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82241-9Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41015-9Published: 08 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4218
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4226
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 166
Topics: Anthropology, Asian Culture, Asian Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies