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Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature
Diana Dimitrova (Ed.)
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Description for Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature
Hardback. Editor(s): Dimitrova, Diana; De Bruijn, Thomas. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Num Pages: 166 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The collection of essays examines questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and modern, while discussing the ideological implications of the interpretation of identity and ... Read more
This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The collection of essays examines questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and modern, while discussing the ideological implications of the interpretation of identity and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
Condition
New
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319410142
SKU
V9783319410142
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About Diana Dimitrova (Ed.)
Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004), Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama (2008), and Hinduism and Hindi Theater (2016). She is the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010) and The Other in South ... Read more
Reviews for Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature
This edited collection by Diana Dimitrova and Thomas de Bruijn is an important addition to the field since it brings debates and ideas of `Indianness' ... . Importantly, Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature is a timely publication as once again, we are called to consider more recent, post-millennial literary and cultural production and its interface with an ever-changing sense ... Read more