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Issues in Modern Hindi Literature

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

“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, Land and Nationalism: The New Language of Dissent in the Poetry of Jacinta Kerketta (Nachiket Joshi) - Muslims Seen Through the Literature of Rāhī Māsūm Razā (Christine Everaert) -Hariyā Hercules kī Hairānī: Reading the Novel Through the Lens of the Kumaoni Community (Veronica Ghirardi) - Transformations of old-Indian aesthetics towards demands of modern public as depicted in selected works by Ajñeya (Teresa Miążek) - Linguistic analysis of Bollywood film song lyrics – A survey of Javed Akhtar’s film lyrics (Julia Szivak) - Candrakāntā and the epic of Lorikī (Peter Friedlander) - Kunwar Narain’s humanistic poetry (Ghanshyam Sharma) - Vocabulary of Mridula Garg (Péter Sagi) - Portrayal of Women in Shailesh Matiyani’s Short Stories (Ram Prasad Bhatt). Index.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-86288-939-6 / 978-3862889396 / 9783862889396

Verlag: LINCOM GmbH

Erscheinungsdatum: 30.04.2020

Seiten: 428

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