Imagining a Postcolonial Nation - Yamini
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This book explores narratives of nationalism in the Hindi novel (1940s-80s), engaging with mainstream, populist, political conceptualisation of a postcolonial nation and local, cultural, often marginalised fictional parallels and alternatives to it. Analysing processes of nation-formation and nationalism(s) via experiments with the novel form and versions of realism in Hindi, conversations between the political and the cultural, rural/borders and the urban/central spaces, individual subjectivity and social structures, and the challenges Hindi novels' internal linguistic diversity poses to…mehr

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This book explores narratives of nationalism in the Hindi novel (1940s-80s), engaging with mainstream, populist, political conceptualisation of a postcolonial nation and local, cultural, often marginalised fictional parallels and alternatives to it. Analysing processes of nation-formation and nationalism(s) via experiments with the novel form and versions of realism in Hindi, conversations between the political and the cultural, rural/borders and the urban/central spaces, individual subjectivity and social structures, and the challenges Hindi novels' internal linguistic diversity poses to formalised Hindi's hegemony, Imagining a Postcolonial Nation: Hindi Novels and Forms of India (1940s-80s) traces Hindi fiction's history of postcolonial India. The multiplicity of realisms indicates significant responses to postcolonial nationalism, idealistic, critical, regional, satirical and psychological. Looking at indigenous narrative methods employed by authors to critically evolve Western ideas of the nation and novel, the book explores the simultaneous convergences and divergences between literary and political understandings of ideological, religious and linguistic nationalisms. Surveying the broad sentiments of idealism, enchantment and disenchantment with freedom and postcoloniality, it studies the possibilities of fiction embodying national history without an outright commitment to mainstream nationalism or nationalist literary canon formation. It also briefly tries to understand the repercussions of nationalism as a masculinist project and its gendered nature affecting a section of writing, novels by women authors, to present counter-narratives to both national and literary canons. Choosing a fairly broad historical timeframe, the book reveals the radical potential of narratives that have over the years been critically categorised as canonical. It reopens discussions around nationalism within novels that have been often canonised as apparently uncritically nationalist.
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Autorenporträt
Dr Yamini teaches English language and literatures at Dyal Singh College (M), University of Delhi. She completed her doctoral research from the Department of English, University of Delhi, in 2016 in the area of postcolonial Indian literature. Her academic areas of interest include Indian literatures, theories of nationalism, postcolonial literatures and theory and gender studies. She has been an associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, in 2015 and 2016. She has also presented papers at a number of national and international conferences and seminars. She resides in Delhi and writes on literature, cinema, social media and popular culture. She has published academic and opinion pieces in MuseIndia, The Book Review, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, DailyO and more. Hindi cinema music is her passion, to the point of remembering and reciting embarrassing lyrics. She grudgingly accepts her fleeting affairs with audio-visual and social media, though books still remain her first love.