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The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature: Implicit and Symptomatic Readings

The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature: Implicit and Symptomatic Readings

Raghavendra, Mk

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 103269579X
ISBN13: 9781032695792
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 29 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English. This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language literature after 1947 to cover such a wide range, including voices from the cultural margins of the nation like Kashmiri and Manipuri, that of women alongside those of minority and marginalised communities. In examining the politics of the writing especially in relation to concerns like nationhood, caste, tradition and modernity, postcoloniality, gender issues and religious conflict, the book goes beyond the declared ideology of each writer to get at covert significations pointing to widely shared but often unacknowledged biases. The book is deeply analytical but lucid and jargon-free and, to those unfamiliar with the writers, it introduces a new keenness into Indian literary criticism to make its objects exciting.

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