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Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature

Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature

Dimitrova, Diana
De Bruijn, Thomas

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

Literary CriticismAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319822411
ISBN13: 9783319822419
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 12 2018
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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 Indianness and how they reflect and influence the power-structures of contemporary societies in South Asia. Thus, the book studies the various aspects of the on-going process of constructing, imagining, re-imagining, and narrating Indianness, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of India.

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