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Informationen zum Autor Akshaya Kumar is Reader at Punjab University (Chandigarh) since 1998. He has published a number of research papers on Indian poetry and has authored A.K. Ramanujan: In Profile and Fragment . Klappentext This book is a close textual study of about 150 poetry collections in three languages-Hindi, Punjabi and Indian English. The book studies Indian poetry from the new emerging imperatives of postcolonialism, new historiography, subaltern (Dalit and Diaspora) nationalism and cultural studies. Zusammenfassung This book is a close textual study of about 150 poetry collections in three languages—Hindi, Punjabi and Indian English. The book studies Indian poetry from the new emerging imperatives of postcolonialism, new historiography, subaltern (Dalit and Diaspora) nationalism and cultural studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Preface 2. Acknowledgement Part I: Mapping Nation/Post-nation 3. Negotiating Nationalism(s): Hindi Poetry during and after the Colonial Period 4. De-fetishising Home/Homelessness: Nation in Post-1990s Hindi Poetry 5. From Hyphen to High-fun: Towards a Topology of New Indian-English Diaspora Poetry Part II: Re-writing Culture 6. From Nationalist Icon to Subaltern Subject, and Beyond: Latter day Meeras 7. Kissa as the Locus of Cultural History: Kissa Pooran Bhagat in Modern Punjabi Literature 8. Translating Bhakti: Versions of Kabir in the Colonial/Early Nationalist Period 9. Anxieties of Native Decent/Dissent: Bhakti Sub-text of Indian English Verse Part III: Disseminating Dissent 10. Poetry of Incarceration: Punjabi Prison Poetry from Ghadar to Emergency and Beyond 11. From Participation to Protest: Political Conciousness of Modern Indian English Poetry 12. From Confusion to Consolidation: Politics of Counter-aesthetics in Dalit Poetry 13. On the frontiers of the Public Sphere: Indian Women’s Poetry from Pre-1947 to Post 9/11 14. Bibliography 15. Index ...
