This book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imagination in
Hindi, Panjabi and Indian English from 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.
The 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 languages Hindi and
Punjabi along with poetry in Indian English, the book is a close
textual study of about 150 poetry collections in these languages.
It is path-breaking in its study of secular poetry written in the
so-called vernaculars, with critical attention to its participation
in the political as well as cultural processes of
nation-making.
This cutting-edge book should be of interest to scholars of
Indian writings in English, Hindi and Panjabi, gender studies,
dalit and diaspora studies, postcolonial poetry and to students
reading South Asian literature and culture."
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