Idea of Indian literature : gender, genre, and comparative method
- Ranikhet : Permanent Black, 2022
- xi, 274 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preetha Mani examines canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories of the mid-twentieth century to redefine Indian literature as constituted by the irresolvable questions of its multiple languages' relationship to its literatures.
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Short stories, Hindi Short stories, Tamil Anand concept Bad faith concept Brahmin culture Caste system Dalit literature Dravidianism Eroticim Feminine desire Hindustani Idealism Individualism Jayakanthan D. Kamaleshwar Literary history Modernism Muslim culture Novel genre Premchand Pudumaippitan Rasa theory Short story genre Social reform Tamil style Urdu Vernacularization Women in Indian literature