Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781032015446 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 246 str.

Debajyoti Biswas; John Charles Ryan

Opis

This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indian Nationalism;  2. The Founder of Hindu Nationalism?: Representation of Shivaji in Philip Meadows Taylor’s Tara;  3. Nation-in-Translation: Interrogating the Ethno-Cultural Discourse of "Nation-ness" in Anandamath;  4. Proto-Nationalist Spectacle on Nineteenth-Century Bengali Stage;  5. From Revolt to Rustication: Urdu and the Indian National Imagination (1857–1947);  6. Divided Nations, Unified Sensibilities: Tales of the Woe of the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent;  7. The Question of Language in the Mothering of a Territory: Understanding Conflicts in Embodiment of Territories in a Multilingual Space;  8. Nationalism through the Glorification of a Precolonial Indian Past in the Work of Chandamama;  9. Re-examining Nationalism and Hindu Religious Rhetoric in India: A Reading of Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness;  10. Unacceptable Citizens: Queer Communities and Homonationalism in India;  11. The ‘Queer Nation’ - Moving Beyond Boundaries? A Study of Select South Asian Novels;  12. Expression of Ecological Nationalism in the Lyrical Narratives of Bhupen Hazarika;  13. "This Is Our Homeland. Out With Foreign Infiltrators" – A Study of Geography, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife;  14. Reconfiguring Indian Nationalism