Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
9780755634132
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9780755634118
Inhalt:
"As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay -- widely regarded as the first Indian novelist -- to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country."--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Introduction: epic forests, sacred groves and vernacular jungles: forests in context -- 2. Colonial modernity, national romance, and the global trade in wood -- 3. Forest, village, nation -- 4. Home forest, outlaw forest: indigeneity, forestry, and national hegemony -- 5. The forest and the city: aspiration, cosmopolitanism, and pollution -- Conclusion: Language politics, religious ideologies, and the fate of forests.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780755634101
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9780755634132
