Critical Discourse in Gujarati

ISBN-13: 9781138504790 / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str.

Opis

This volume forms part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series, which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Gujarati literature and its critical tradition across a century.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION Critical Discourse in Gujarati: A Vikalpa Vachana. CHAPTER 1. Sections Ka 1 to 5. Prarambha / Beginnings - Real contra Colonial. Gujarati Critical Discourse from 12^th to 18^th Cent. CE. CHAPTER 2.  Sections Kha 1 to 4. Pratham Vivarta / First Variation: 1820 – 1915. Anya-bodha/Sva-bodha Kal. – Period of Alien Cognition / Indigenous Cognition Part I : 1820 -1875. Sudharak Yug : Times of the Reformers. CHAPTER 3. Sections Ga 1 to 7. Pratham Vivarta / First Variation. Part II : 1875 – 1915. Sakshar Yug. / Times of Erudition.CHAPTER 4. Sections Gha 1 to 9. Dvitiya Vivarta / Second Variation : 1915 – 1955. Hind Svaraj Kal / Period of India Engendering its Freedom. CHAPTER 5. Sections Cha 1 to 8 Trutiya Vivarta / Third Variation : 1955 onwards. Vyapana Shakti Kal. / Time of Energies for Enlargement.

O autorze

Sitanshu Yashshchandra is renowned Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic. He was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award by Government of India, in 2006.