01906nam a22002177a 4500 20221219163527.0 221219b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780415480055 AL English 23 891.2 KUMP Akshaya Kumar 66802 Poetry Politics and Culture: Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts New Delhi Routledge 2009 x,400 p. HB 22.2x14.5 cm. ₹850.00 ₹ ₹850.00 This book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imagination―in Hindi, Panjabi and Indian English―from its original quasi-spiritual longings to its activist interventions in the public domain. As Indian poetry of the post-1990s gravitates towards a non-Orientalised postcolonial nationalism, it seeks to rewrite and disseminate the shifting coordinates of nationalist imagination in terms of the dissent of the subaltern discontents of the nation. The book is interdisciplinary: it studies Indian poetry from the new emerging imperatives of postcolonialism, new historiography (subaltern, dalit and diasporas), nationalism, and cultural studies. Covering the two major north Indian languages―Hindi and Punjabi―along with poetry in Indian English, the book is a close textual study of about 150 poetry collections in these languages. It is path-breaking in its study of secular poetry written in the so-called vernaculars, with critical attention to its participation in the political as well as cultural processes of nation-making. This cutting-edge book should be of interest to scholars of Indian writings in English, Hindi and Panjabi, gender studies, dalit and diaspora studies, postcolonial poetry and to students reading South Asian literature and culture. History of Literature 66799 KUMAR (Akshaya) 66800 ddc DB 225932 225932 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2014-11-28 0 891.2 KUMP D05321 2022-12-19 00:00:00 2022-12-19 DB Donated by V. T. Rajshekar