Anjali Nerlekar's" Bombay Modern" is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies. Nerlekar shows how a bilingual, materialist reading of Kolatkar's texts uncovers a uniquely resistant sense of the "local" that defies the monolinguistic cultural pressures of the post-1960 years and straddles the boundaries of English and Marathi writing. "Bombay Modern" uncovers an alternative and provincial modernism through poetry, a genre that is marginal to...
Anjali Nerlekar's" Bombay Modern" is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of bot...
Anjali Nerlekar's" Bombay Modern" is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies. Nerlekar shows how a bilingual, materialist reading of Kolatkar's texts uncovers a uniquely resistant sense of the "local" that defies the monolinguistic cultural pressures of the post-1960 years and straddles the boundaries of English and Marathi writing. "Bombay Modern" uncovers an alternative and provincial modernism through poetry, a genre that is marginal to...
Anjali Nerlekar's" Bombay Modern" is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of bot...
