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This book is a fresh examination of Tagore's ideas on nationalism and cosmopolitanism. It critically analyses the poetics and the politics of his works and specifically responds to Tagore's three lectures on nationalism delivered during the early years of the twentieth century, and later compiled in his book Nationalism (1917).
List of contents
Introduction Part I: Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations, Ambiguities, Limitations and Contemporary Relevance 1. Antinomies of Nationalism and Rabindranath Tagore 2. Rabindranath Tagore’s Engagement with Nationalism 3. Imagining "One World": Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of Nationalism 4. Visva-Bharati: Tagore’s Response to Aggressive Nationalism? 5. Nationalism Then and Now: An Exploration of Tagore’s Relevance Today 6. Pilgrim Man: Rabindranath Tagore’s Cosmopolitanism and Cosmic Consciousness 7. Tagore, Cosmopolitanism and Secular Ethic 8. For Love of Country: Debating Martha Nussbaum on Cosmopolitanism in Tagore Part II: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Interrogating the Genres 9. Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism and Poetry – Message of Universal Humanism 10. "Hungry Stone": Colonial Uncanny and the Return of the Repressed 11. Narrating Nation, Society, Cosmopolitanism and Culture: A Study of Three Stories by Rabindranath Tagore 12. Finding One’s Home Abroad: Tagore’s Thinking on Nation in the Travelogues to Japan and Persia 13. On Music and Memory: Rabindranath Tagore’s Songs of Nature in the Age of Nationalism 14. Cinematic Representations of Rabindranath Tagore’s Views of Nationalism: The Figure of the "Patriot" in Ghare Baire and Elar Char Adhyay
About the author
Mohammad A. Quayum is Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia and Adjunct Professor at Flinders University and the University of South Australia. His books on Tagore include Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore (2014), and Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories (trans.; 2014).
Summary
This book is a fresh examination of Tagore’s ideas on nationalism and cosmopolitanism. It critically analyses the poetics and the politics of his works and specifically responds to Tagore’s three lectures on nationalism delivered during the early years of the twentieth century, and later compiled in his book Nationalism (1917).
