Poetry, Politics and Culture - 9781138384200

Name: Poetry, Politics and Culture - 9781138384200
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Poetry, Politics and CultureEssays on Indian Texts and Contexts\nAuthor(s): Akshaya Kumar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781138384200, 978-1138384200\nSynopsis\nThis book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imaginationin Hindi, Panjabi and Indian Englishfrom its original quasi-spiritual longings to its activist interventions in the public domain. As Indian poetry of the post-1990s gravitates towards a non-Orientalised postcolonial nationalism, it seeks to rewrite and disseminate the shifting coordinates of nationalist imagination in terms of the dissent of the subaltern discontents of the nation.\n\nThe book is interdisciplinary: it studies Indian poetry from the new emerging imperatives of postcolonialism, new historiography (subaltern, dalit and diasporas), nationalism, and cultural studies. Covering the two major north Indian languagesHindi and Punjabialong with poetry in Indian English, the book is a .