India’s Forests, Real and Imagined
Writing the Modern Nation
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ISBN-13:
9781350353923
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.07.2024
Seiten:
280
Autor:
Alan Johnson
Gewicht:
454 g
Format:
234x156x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - widely regarded as the first Indian novelist - to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.
Preface: The Plan of the BookThe Argument and Its ScopeA Note on Translation1. Introduction: Epic Forests, Sacred Groves and Vernacular Jungles: Forests in Context2. Colonial Modernity, National Romance, and the Global Trade in Wood3. Forest, Village, Nation4. Home Forest, Outlaw Forest: Indigeneity, Forestry, and National Hegemony5. The Forest and the City: Aspiration, Cosmopolitanism, and PollutionConclusion: Language Politics, Religious Ideologies, and the Fate of ForestsBibliographyIndex
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