Imagining Indianness (eBook)

Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004), Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama (2008), and Hinduism and Hindi Theater (2016). She is the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010) and The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness (2014).Thomas de Bruijn is an independent scholar and author of Ruby in the Dust: History and Poetry in Padmāvat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Muḥammad Jāyasī (2012) and co-editor of Circulation of Culture: Literature in Motion in Early Modern India (2014).

Chapter 1. Of many Indias: alternative nationhoods in contemporary Indian poetryChapter 2. Reviewing Nirmal Varma, Jaidev and the Indianness of Indian LiteratureChapter 3. Indianness as a category in literary criticism on Nayī KahānīChapter 4. Imagining “Indianness” and modern Hindi dramaChapter 5. The Indian contexts and subtexts of my textChapter 6. Kishorilal Gosvami’s IndumatīChapter 7. Indianness, absurdism, existentialism, and the work of imagination: Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Naukar kā kamīzChapter 8. ‘Subah kī sair’ and ‘Dūsrī duniyā’, two short stories by Nirmal Varma