Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia

ISBN-13: 9781032067254 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 222 str.

Gupta, Charu

Opis

These essays, rooted in the humanities and informed by interdisciplinary area studies, explore multiple linkages between forms of print culture, linguistic identities, and diverse vernacular literary spaces in colonial and post-colonial South Asia.

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Introduction 1. Female Mobility and Bengali Women’s Travelogues in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 2. Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel in Colonial India: The Writings of Satyadev ‘Parivrajak’ 3. Malika Begum’s Mehfil: The Lost Legacy of Women’s Travel Writing in Urdu 4. Nationality and Fashionality: Hats, Lawyers and Other Important Things to Remember 5. Adoption in Hindi Fiction: Contesting Normative Understandings of Parenting and Parenthood in Late Colonial India 6. An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre- Eminence to the Tamil Short Story 7. The LCD (Lowest Common Denominator) of Language: The Materialist Poetry of Arun Kolatkar and R.K. Joshi 8. ‘Justice’ in Translation 9. Mother Tongues— the Disruptive Possibilities of Feminist Vernaculars Appendix