Issues in modern Hindi literature: Ghanshyam Sharma (ed.)

"Issues in modern Hindi literature" brings together influential articles written by researchers – both eminent and emerging – who examine and discuss different burning issues in modern Hindi literature such as modernism, the modern literary hero, poetics of the displaced, the role of folk...

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Main Author: Sharma, Ghanshyam (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Muenchen LINCOM GmbH 2020
Series:LINCOM studies in modern literature 01
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Summary:"Issues in modern Hindi literature" brings together influential articles written by researchers – both eminent and emerging – who examine and discuss different burning issues in modern Hindi literature such as modernism, the modern literary hero, poetics of the displaced, the role of folk culture, women’s perspective in literature, experimentation with truth in biographies, self-realization of heroines, ecofeminism, representation of Muslims and regional communities in literature, transformations in the old aesthetics, Bollywood music, the Loriki epic, humanistic poetry, experiments with lexicon, portrayal of women, etc.
The volume thus encapsulates results of detailed research carried out by some leading Hindi scholars on a wide range of topics, gives a rich and in-depth account of the vitality of current research and usefully provides the reader with a snapshot of current developments in modern Hindi literary criticism which will undoubtedly broaden our understanding of modern Hindi literature.
Contents: Interrogating child-marriage: A scene from Dadu Janamlila by Jan Gopal (Purushottam Agrawal) - The Literary Novel in Hindi in the Age of Economic Liberalization: From Progressive Prose to the Consuming Subject of Capital (Richard Delacy) - Looking for a New Identity: The Hindi Literary Hero in the Twenty-First Century (Anna Chelnokova) - Exiles at Home: The Poetics of the Displaced in Uday Prakash’s "Exiled from Poetry and Country" (Matthew Reeck) - The oral dimension of folk culture in Hindi literature: two examples (Annie Montaut) - Women’s angle of life and stories: The short stories of Chandra Kiran Sonrexa (Imre Bangha) - Their Stories of Experiments with Truth: Contemporary Hindi Autobiographies by Women (Monika Browarczyk) - Self-realization of a Heroine in novels by Hindi women writers (Guzel Strelkova) - Ecofeminism,
Item Description:The present volume on modern Hindi literature grows out of an international gathering of Hindi literary scholars which took place on the occasion of an International Conference on Hindi Studies at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris in September 2016.
Physical Description:xiv, 426 Seiten
ISBN:9783862889396

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