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This book deals with the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature. The book also explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The articles in this collection explore questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and nowadays, while discussing the ideological implications of the interpretation of identity and "Indianness" and how they reflect and influence the power-structures of contemporary societies in South Asia. Thus, the book studies the various aspects of the on-going process of constructing, imagining, re-imagining, and narrating "Indianness", as revealed in the literatures and cultures of India.§

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Imagining Indianness
• Author: Diana Dimitrova, Thomas De Bruijn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 166
• EAN: 9783319410142
• ISBN: 9783319410142
• ID: 10929406
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 374 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 217 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. February 2017

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