Subhendu Mund

The Making of Indian English Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

The Making of Indian English Literature brings together seventeen well-researched essays of Subhendu Mund with a long introduction by the author historicising the development of the Indian writing in English while exploring its identity among the many appellations tagged to it. The volume demonstrates, contrary to popular perceptions, that before the official introduction of English education in India, Indians had already tried their hands in nearly all forms of literature: poetry, fiction, drama, essay, biography, autobiography, book review, literary criticism and travel writing. Besides translation activities, Indians had also started editing and publishing periodicals in English before 1835. Through archival research the author brings to discussion a number of unknown and less discussed texts which contributed to the development of the genre. The work includes exclusive essays on such early poets and writers as Kylas Chunder Dutt, Shoshee Chunder Dutt, Toru Dutt, Mirza Moorad Alee Beg, Krupabai Satthianadhan, Swami Vivekananda, H. Dutt, and Sita Chatterjee; and historiographical studies on the various aspects of the genre. The author also examines the strategies used by the early writers to indianise the western language and the form of the novel. The present volume also demonstrates how from the very beginning Indian writing in English had a subtle nationalist agenda and created a space for protest literature. The Making of Indian English Literature will prove an invaluable addition to the studies in Indian writing in English as a source of reference and motivation for further research. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9781032068008
• ISBN-10: 1032068000
• Artikelnr.: 64080659

Autorenporträt

Subhendu Mund is an Odia poet, writer, lexicographer and translator. He is presently a Visiting Professor at School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, IIT Bhubaneswar.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Kylas Chunder Dutt: The First Writer of Indian English
Fiction 3. Locating the Nation: Narrating the Nation, Re-writing History 4.
Colonial Dilemma: A Study of Cultural Collision and Assimilation in the
Early Indian English Fiction 5. Resistance and Reasoning: Shoshee Chunder
Dutt's Narration of the 'Sepoy Mutiny' 6. Towards the Horizon: A Study of
the Early Indian English Novelist's Use of Language 7. Problem of Form in
the Early Indian Novel in English 8. Towards a Synthesis: The Theme of
Reform in the Early Indian Novel in English 9. Emergence of Biography and
Autobiography in the Indian English Literature 10. Lost in 'a strange
light': An Enquiry into Toru Dutt's Legacy 11. Krupabai Satthianadhan: The
Portrait of an Indian Lady 12. The Mystic as Kavyadarshi: Swami
Vivekananda's Engagement with Literature 13. The New Woman and Colonial
Modernism: Sita Chatterjee's The Knight Errant as an Exploration of
Identity 14. Between the Commonwealth and the Postcolonial: A Study of
Nationness and Identity in the Early Indian English Fiction 15. The Strange
Case of Suresh Biswas: Interrogating the Myth of Colonial Masculinity 16.
The Enigma of Hybridity: Mirza Moorad Alee Beg, the Author of Lalun the
Beragun 17. An Indigenous Perception of 'Myth' and 'Mysticism': A Study in
the Early Indian English Poetry 18. Politics of Self-assertion: A Study in
the Early Indian Fiction in English Translation