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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Bhakti movement had been an energizing phenomenon that provided a concrete shape and an identifiable face to the abstractions of Sanskrit scriptures. As counterculture, it embraced into its fold all sections of people breaking the barriers of caste, class, community and gender. It added an inclusive dimension to the hitherto privileged, exclusivist, Upanishadic tradition. A primal instinct for unmitigated attachment, total surrender and craving for freedom are at the root of the bhakti tradition. From within, it performed a subversive, reformatory function that changed the dynamics of worship at religious level and challenged the hierarchies at social level. Bhakti literature was marked by spontaneity and ecstasy and hence it produced a rich body of verse born of the heart. The bhasa poets from different castes, regions and religions created a bountiful corpus of literature since eighth century AD in the form of metrical compositions, poems, songs, vachanas, bhajans, keertanas and padams. A heterogeneous group, they are distinguished by non-sectarian attitude, vernacular idiom, faith in divinity, dismissal of rituals and caste, and affinity with the underprivileged sections. Rooted in the age and the soil their literature is unique in that each of them bears his/her unique stamp of a distinct idiom in their dialogue with God who is like any other human being as He exchanged the roles of a lover, beloved, companion, benefactor and guide. Bhakti is as exciting as ever in that it attracts critics into its atmospheric zone over and again, and they come up with multiple interpretations and commentaries. The twenty seven articles in this volume trace the beginnings and growth of bhakti movement and literature as propagated by a number of poet-saints across India up to the twentieth century. The poet-saints discussed in the volume include Andal, Kanakadasa, Mirabai, Kabir, Vemana, Pothana, Annamayya and others. (jacket).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Re-visiting or re-contextualization of India by the Indian Writers in English offered exciting possibilities in fiction since 1980s. India is a huge construct in which each segment of the society feels it owns the totality in much the same way as the whole structure assimilates and celebrates plurality authenticating different marginalized sections and their narratives, the postcolonial way. Of late these voices from margins and their narratives have become integral to the Indian English Fiction scene. Indian history offered a vast repertoire for Indian fiction writers in English as it happened in the case of African writers in English in the fifties and sixties. Similarly, they subverted English language to make it their own using it in a freewheeling, resonant manner. Salman Rushdie, I. Allan Sealy, Amitav Ghosh, Dina Mehta, Githa Hariharan, Arundhati Roy and a host of other novelists have created a fictional corpus providing space, voice and visibility to marginalized groups in terms of class, community, religion and gender. These resistance narratives could be compared with the best in Regional Literatures in India as well as African English classics. The twenty-six articles in this anthology, as such, offer re-mappings of perspectives by the postcolonial Indian English Fictionists. These writers have made a habit of re-viewing history, resisting hegemonic perspectives, both imposed and home-grown, while projecting a spirit of liberation in the process. The issues the scholars in this anthology have dealt with are wide ranging, from reconstruction of minority histories, nationalism, communalism, dalit and women perspectives to freedom struggle revisited as reflected in an array of fascinating fictional works. (jacket).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. The Question of Nationalism: An Indian Response/P. Mallikarjuna Rao. 2. Indian English Fiction and the Question of Indianness: A General Assessment/Syed Mujeebuddin. 3. NRI Writers versus RNI Critics/P. Shiv Kumar. 4. Recent Indian Novel in English: Some Animadversions/M. Rajagopalachary. 5. Tradition, Caste and Raja Rao/G. Thirupathi Kumar. 6. Interrogating Tradition: A Study of Mulk Raj Anand's Gauri/G. Thirupathi Kumar. 7. Gendering Indian Fiction in English: Mapping Masculinity/Mittapalli Rajeshwar. 8. Arun Joshi's The Last Labyrinth and a 'Secret Curiosity'/J. Yellaiah. 9. The Hidden Layers of the World of Haroun/Roshin George. 10. From Bombay to Bharat: Bollywood and India in I. Allan Sealy's Hero: A Fable/G. Sujatha. 11. What the Nation Meant to Them: Nationalism and the Quest for Meaning in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column/Arash P. Fazli. 12. Male Constructs and Female Choices in Githa Hariharan's The Thousand Faces of Night/J. Yellaiah and G. Pratima. 13. Not for a Season Only: Re-Narrating History in Looking Through Glass and A Fine Balance/Alessandro Monti. 14. 'Honour' Killings and the Dalits in Fiction and Films: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Priyadarshan's Aakrosh/Mittapalli Rajeshwar. 15. Reflections on the Crystal Palace: The Glass Palace as a Postcolonial Text/T. Vinoda. 16. Language and Silence in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide/S. Latha. 17. Crossovers and Makeovers: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake/T. Vinoda. 18. The Human Incompatibility and the Inside of Interpretation: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Fiction/B. Gopal Rao. 19. The Story-teller in the Information Age: Vikram Chandra's Entwining Narratives/Christopher Rollason. 20. The Image of Contemporary India in Rukun Advani's Beethoven Among the Cows: A Reading/B. Krishnaiah. 21. Shattered Lives and Scarred Souls: Women in Partition Stories/P. Mallikarjuna Rao and Radhika Purohit. 22. From Oppression to Assertion: A Note on Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke/K.V. Ramana Chary. 23. Charting Alter'native' Terrain: Class, Culture, Gender Resistance in Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi /K. Damodar Rao and B. Vijaya. 24. The Struggle for Social Justice in Paraja/M. Prabhakar and D. Vijaya Prakash. 25. Tribulations and Marginality of Dalits in Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan/B. Krishnaiah and A. Komuraiah. 26. Gendered Articulations: A Reading of Select Telugu Short Fiction in English Translation/Palakurthy Dinakar. India is a construct that defies rigid definitions, classifications and strict categorizations. It cherishes centuries-old values of diversity and cultural pluralism. Its unifying principles of sense of belonging and dialogic co-existence have been recognised for long, but the intriguing aspect of how these multiple cultures and conflicting ideologies could co-exist for so many centuries is a question that attracted the attention of scholars, thinkers and leaders. In the process, the idea of India or what constitutes Indianness has been visited and revisited by many. The concepts of multiculturalism and Indianness have also been debated for long which, in fact, constitute the subjects of scrutiny in this anthology, in the light of Indian Fiction scene. Since the whole ethic is based on different identities, it enables every segment to make a meaning of itself. In a mutually beneficial manner, the whole offers space to its parts and the mini nations sustain the whole, strengthening the idea of India and the spirit of multiculturalism. This anthology presents the question of Indianness from multiple perspectives. It offers a rich mosaic of essays dealing with fiction vis-à-vis contested issues of plurality, multiple identities, and the supposed in authenticity or otherwise of Nationalism as well as NRI writers. Besides, the articles on different fictional works attempt to focus on issues of violence, migration, class, gender and caste distinctions. In addition, an attempt has been made to show that the co.