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Cold War genres : local and international in Hindi literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goulding, Gregory (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Albany] : State University of New York, 2024.
Subjects:
Hindi literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literary form.
Genres littéraires.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction
  • The Central Outsider
  • Cold War Vernaculars
  • The Stakes of Literary Form
  • Hindi Literature
  • Structure of the Book
  • 1 A Stream of Pure Sanskrit Curses: Caste, Knowledge, and Critique in the Long Poem
  • What Is a Long Poem?
  • The Well
  • The Brahmin Demon
  • The Brahmarakshas
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Realism, Romanticism, and the (Lower) Middle Class: The Problem of Aesthetic Process
  • The (Lower) Middle Class in Postindependence Hindi Literature
  • A Writer's Diary
  • The Third Moment of Expression
  • Realism as Underground
  • 3 Muktibodh's Prose Fiction and the Question of the Real
  • Poetry and Prose
  • Distorted Fable
  • Anecdotes of Imprisonment
  • The Nehruvian Paranoid Mood
  • Through the Window
  • 4 The Long Poem between Genre and Form
  • The Magical World of an Extended Poem
  • The World of Beauty and the World of the Novel
  • The Multiple Pasts of Free Verse
  • Muktachanda between Marathi and Hindi
  • The Formal Structure of the Long Poem
  • Allegory Itself
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion: The Afterlives of Muktibodh
  • Alienation or Existentialism
  • Ratlam and Bhopal
  • The Idea of Muktibodh
  • Appendix: Full Translations of "Brahmarαkcas" (The Brahmin Demon) and "ACdhere meC" (In the Dark)
  • Brahmarakshas
  • In the Dark
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index