Akshaya Kumar

Poetry, Politics and Culture

Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a close textual study of about 150 poetry collections in three languages-Hindi, Punjabi and Indian English. The book studies Indian poetry from the new emerging imperatives of postcolonialism, new historiography, subaltern (Dalit and Diaspora) nationalism and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harrington House Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781138384200
• ISBN-10: 1138384208
• Artikelnr.: 55103948

Autorenporträt

Akshaya Kumar is Reader at Punjab University (Chandigarh) since 1998. He has published a number of research papers on Indian poetry and has authored A.K. Ramanujan: In Profile and Fragment.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface 2. Acknowledgement Part I: Mapping Nation/Post-nation 3.
Negotiating Nationalism(s): Hindi Poetry during and after the Colonial
Period 4. De-fetishising Home/Homelessness: Nation in Post-1990s Hindi
Poetry 5. From Hyphen to High-fun: Towards a Topology of New Indian-English
Diaspora Poetry Part II: Re-writing Culture 6. From Nationalist Icon to
Subaltern Subject, and Beyond: Latter day Meeras 7. Kissa as the Locus of
Cultural History: Kissa Pooran Bhagat in Modern Punjabi Literature 8.
Translating Bhakti: Versions of Kabir in the Colonial/Early Nationalist
Period 9. Anxieties of Native Decent/Dissent: Bhakti Sub-text of Indian
English Verse Part III: Disseminating Dissent 10. Poetry of Incarceration:
Punjabi Prison Poetry from Ghadar to Emergency and Beyond 11. From
Participation to Protest: Political Conciousness of Modern Indian English
Poetry 12. From Confusion to Consolidation: Politics of Counter-aesthetics
in Dalit Poetry 13. On the frontiers of the Public Sphere: Indian Women's
Poetry from Pre-1947 to Post 9/11 14. Bibliography 15. Index