Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature

Introduction: Reading modern Indian 'bhasha' literature; Part 1: The nation and its ethnicities; 1. Literature for Performance; 2. Constructing a Syncretic History; 3. The Meaning of life; 4. Failure and Middle-class life; 5. Essentializing the Marginalized; 6. The Private as Public; 7. The Polarization of Social Experience; Part 2: Modernity and its effects; 8. Breaking Taboos; 9. Modernity and Interiority;10 Unstable Hybrid; 11. Outward Profusion, Inner Silence; 12. Another Modernity; 13. Literary Modernism and the Community; 14. Living in the World; Part 3: Gender and the position of women; 15. Nation of Women; 16. Tradition, Privilege and Gender; 17. 'Eternal' Womanhood; Part 4: The experience of caste; 18. Literature and Testimony; 19. View from Under; 20. The Nostalgia of the Small Farmer; 21. Lost Authority, Soft Power; 22. The Myth of Varna; Part 5: Humanism and authorial discourse; 23. The Popular Writer and Literature; 24. Humanism without Politics; 25. A Tapestry called Humanity; Afterword: Patterns in Bhasha Writing

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• História social e cultural
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• História da Ásia
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres

South Asian Literature;bhasha;postcolonial literature;postmodern;Kashmir;Manipur