The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method Volume 41

by Preetha Mani

Winner of the 2023 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies

Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relationship between language and literature, written in as well as against English. Examining canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories from the crucial decades surrounding decolonization, Mani contends that Indian literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810144999
• ISBN13: 9780810144996
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"