Cold War Genres
Local and International in Hindi Literature
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2024
240 pages
978-1-4384-9960-4 (ISBN)
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Argues that the post-independence period was a unique era of literary experimentation in Hindi literature, which must be read in the contexts of both local and global cultural, social, and literary history.
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Gregory Goulding is Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Content
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction
1. A Stream of Pure Sanskrit Curses: Caste, Knowledge, and Critique in the Long Poem
2. Realism, Romanticism, and the (Lower) Middle Class: The Problem of Aesthetic Process
3. Muktibodh's Prose Fiction and the Question of the Real
4. The Long Poem between Genre and Form
Conclusion: The Afterlives of Muktibodh
Appendix: Full Translations of "Brahmarak¿as" (The Brahmin Demon) and "A¿dhere me¿" (In the Dark)
Notes
Works Cited
Index
