
Elusive Terrain
Culture and Literary Memory
Meenakshi Mukherjee(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 21. February 2008
Book
Hardback
218 pages
978-0-19-569208-2 (ISBN)
Description
Divided into two sections, the thirteen essays included in this volume address diverse issues pertaining to modern India. The first section examines a few strands among the many that are woen in the texture of India's plural existence: language, translation, films, migration, nostalgia for a lost home, literary debates that cut across regions, while most essays in the second section go back in time to inquire the questions of religion, politics, the construction of the nation and forming of identities that constitute India's past.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
393 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-569208-2 (9780195692082)
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Author
Formerly Professor of EnglishFormerly Professor of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi