Preetha Mani, "The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method (Volume 41) "
English | ISBN: 0810145006 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relationship between language and literature, written in as well as against English. Examining canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories from the crucial decades surrounding decolonization, Mani contends that Indian literature must be understood as indeterminate, propositional, and reflective of changing dynamics between local, regional, national, and global readerships. In