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  • Voices of Change

    Progressive Poetry and Cultural Resistance in India

    Edited by Akshaya Kumar, Amandeep Kaur ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume compiles critical essays that explore the evolution of progressive poetry in India from the 1920s onwards. It underscores the influence of writers in shaping both social and poetic landscapes, addressing themes such as folk music, colonial modernity, regional identities, and feminist poetics. Offering a comprehensive examination of the diverse voices and movements that have defined ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Gangrene

    Punjabi Dalit Short Stories

    by Navdeep Singh, Akshaya Kumar ...
    In percentage terms, Punjab has the highest Dalit population in India (around 30 per cent of its population). But inspite of that, Punjabi Dalit writing has struggled to find recognition.Initial writings about Dalit issues were largely by the stalwarts of Punjabi literature like Nanak Singh, Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari, Kulwant Singh Virk and Gurdial Singh. Since the 1970s though, Punjabi Dalit ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Popular Culture in South Asian Context

    Edited by Akshaya Kumar, Raj Thakur ...
    The volume examines popular sensibilities via textual, visual, performative, spatial, digital frames of inquiry and critical social-political issues in South Asia. It highlights the interface between cultural studies and its popular-political standpoints and interrogates the kaleidoscope of popular imaginary as well as its conceptual problematics through distinct case studies from the region. It ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Poetry, Politics and Culture

    Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts

    by Akshaya Kumar ...
    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 ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Dew Drops . . . .

    An Anthology of English Poems . . .

    by Akshaya Kumar Das ...
    The poems published here belong to all genres. They are on the themes of love, societal issues, current situation prevailing in the world, on nature, and on great personalities to luminaries. Each poem depicts the subjects beautifully in a classy style. The poet has adopted a unique style of writing, ending in a wonderful finish. The poems on nature, particularly on seasons, are wonderfully ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    by Tabish Khair ...
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    $4.99 USD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Book 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures

    Edited by Ulka Anjaria, Anjali Nerlekar ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures refutes the Anglocentrism of much literary criticism of the global South by examining "Indian Literature" as a multilingual, dialogic, and plural space constituted by both continuities and divergences. In forty-three chapters and with a team of scholars who exemplify the method of historically situated and theoretically rigorous literary criticism, ... Read more

    $184.49 USD

  • Vernacular English

    Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India

    by Akshya Saxena ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India

    The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films

    by Anuradha Needham ...
    Series series Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
    Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history.The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting his subtle and critical engagement with a truism of Indian nationalism: women’s centrality to the (nation ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Cultural Studies in India

    Edited by Rana Nayar ...
    This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory, subaltern studies, Marxism and post-Marxism, nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature, linguistics, history, political science, media and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Remembrance, Forgetting and Utterance

    Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia

    Edited by Isha Dubey ...
    This volume explores new avenues in the field of memory studies. Going beyond Western frames of reference, it shows how religion, region, caste, and class and their intersectionality and the fraught legacy of colonialism shape acts of both collective remembrance and forgetting in South Asia. The chapters in the volume call for a substantive rethinking of the conceptual and methodological ... Read more

    $64.99 USD