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The Mahatma Misunderstood : the Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India.
'The Mahatma Misunderstood' is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime, and explains why novelists both vehemently critiqued and lovingly collaborated with the Mahatma simultaneously.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Anthem South Asian studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Mahatma as Proof: the nationalist origins of the historiography of Indian writing in English; Chapter 2 "THE MAHATMA DIDN'T SAY SO, BUT ... ": MULK RAJ ANAND'S UNTOUCHABLE AND THE SYMPATHIES OF MIDDLE-CLASS NATIONALISTS; The Politics of Untouchability in Late-Colonial India; Anand and Gandhi; Caste and Colonial Modernity; Anand and the Ethics of Solidarity; A Novelistic Structure of Solidarity.
- Chapter 3 "The Mahatma may be all wrong about politics, but ... ": Raja Rao's Kanthapura and the religious imagination of the INDIAN, secular, nationalist middle classReligious and Gandhian Discourses in Karnataka; The Uneven Development of Literary Secularism; Kanthapura and the Rearguard Action of Authenticity; Narrating from the Position of Underconfidence; The Congress in Karnataka; Kanthapura and the Politics of Postindependence Communalism; Democracy and Authenticity; Chapter 4 The Missing Mahatma: Ahmed Ali and the aesthetics of Muslim anticolonialism; Nationalist Politics and Delhi.
- Muslim Literature, Identity and WeddingsThe Urdu Literary Antecedents to Twilight in Delhi; Ahmed Ali and the Fallout from Angare; The Marriage in Twilight in Delhi; The Politics of Ali's Delhi; Ali's Novelistic Politics; Chapter 5 The Grammar of the Gandhians: Jayaprakash Narayan and the figure of Gandhi; Chapter 6 The Mahatma Misunderstood: the arrested development of the nationalist dialectic; Mazzini Misunderstood; The Communists in India; Gramsci on Transformism; Conclusion Dangerous Solidarities; NOTES; Introduction.
- Chapter 1 The Mahatma as Proof: The Nationalist Origins of the Historiography of Indian Writing in EnglishChapter 2 "The Mahatma didn't say so, but ... ": Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and the Sympathies of Middle-Class Nationalists; Chapter 3 "The Mahatma may be all wrong about politics, but ... ": Raja Rao's Kanthapura and the Religious Imagination of the Indian, Secular, Nationalist Middle Class; Chapter 4 The Missing Mahatma: Ahmed Ali and the Aesthetics of Muslim Anticolonialism; Chapter 5 The Grammar of the Gandhians: Jayaprakash Narayan and the Figure of Gandhi.
- Chapter 6 The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Arrested Development of the Nationalist DialecticBIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.