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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Indian literature"”.
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The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature
… explores the symptoms of alienation witnessed in Indian characters and the healing they achieve through myth in three contemporary American Indian novels. In James Welch's historical novel, Fools Crow, I explore the methods through which Welch tells the story of Fools Crow. I draw comparisons …
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The Decades Of Disillusionment: Essays On Indian Literature And Cinema After Nehru
… of disillusionment and disappointment in modern Indian literature and cinema. The death of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, marks the symbolic starting point for the project. Part I of the dissertation focuses on the period of crisis between Nehru’s death in 1964 and the …
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An Approach to the Study of American Indian Literature at the College Level
… been exposed to the materials of the American Indian tradition, such literature has been available for a number of years. The works of American Indians, whether individual or tribal, have generally gone unnoticed by the majority of teachers, who have usually favored non-Indian interpretations …
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An audience and textual study of gender and caste politics in Indian literature
This thesis explores the everyday realities of Indian women and the gender politics that currently exist in Indian society from the perspective of an upper caste middle class female audience. The aim of this research is to understand and explore the gender politics at the level of the everyday …
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Die Reinkarnation Des Lesers Als Autor: Ein Rezeptions Geschichtlicher Versuch Ueber Den Einfluss Der Altindischen Literatur Auf Deutsche Schriftsteller Um 1900. (German Text)
… to redefine the relationship between classical Indian literature and modern German literature. Almost all the criticism surveyed has been an analysis of the influence of the sacred texts of India on German literature. The result was a refusal to acknowledge the writing of the Germans as a …
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The company man: colonial agents and the idea of the virtuous empire, 1786-1901
… departure is the obsession shared between Anglo-Indian writers and imperial policymakers with the threat of unmanageable agency, the employee who will not follow orders. By taking up Giambattista Vico's claim that human subjects and human institutions condition each other reciprocally, I argue …
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The birth and growth of Indo-Anglian literature and its contributions to English literature
<p>Western civilization has been influenced by Indian thought in two ways - one through the Greeks, and the other through modern English scholarship. The former has affected us but slightly, being the result of oral interchange, rather than of immediate literary borrowing, - thus passing only …
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Telling Fragments: Politics of the Short Story in Late-Colonial India
… for the short story, and especially the bhasas (Indian-vernacular) short story, the ‘nation’ must not be treated as the epochal ideology or the only conceived category for literary and cultural radicalism. In order to understand the politics of the short story in late-colonial India, there needs …
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Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921
… Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921 by Christine Renée Cavalier Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 Professor Vivian Pollak, Chairperson This dissertation examines how sentimental notions of respectable womanhood and refined education shaped the …
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Translingual nostalgias in modern Sanskrit and Indian poetry in English
… the linguistic pole furthest from English in the Indian nationalist imagination: Sanskrit. Contrary to popular perception, Modern Sanskrit continues to produce an ample but vastly understudied body of literature that invites us to rethink familiar debates about South Asian multilingualism as well …
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Perpetuation or subversion : a study on the track of imperialism and nationalism in Anglo-Indian and Indo-Anglian literature, 1857-1947
… number of literary texts written by English and Indian authors. With three exceptions, the texts originated in English. In the three exceptions, the translations from Bengali to English either were made by the Indian author himself or were entrusted to another Indian author and could therefore be …
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Scripting anxiety/scripting identity: Indian mutiny, history, and the colonial imaginary, 1857-1911
… Identity examines the impact of the 1857 Indian Mutiny on British and Indian cultural consciousness and collective memory. I focus on anxious articulations about material objects, racial and sexual identities, and religion to argue these are symptomatic of a greater problem in mutiny …
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Fictions of American domesticity: indigenous women, white women, and the nation, 1850-1950
Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:16:36-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: 2015-05-28 14:21:22 UTC Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Feminist Herstory Through Indian English Literature
… for my curriculum design project, which uses Indian English feminist literature to amplify monolithic understandings of feminism in the Indian context. The purpose of this project was to design a workshop curriculum that uses Indian English feminist literature to define and exemplify the need …
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Maternal Shadows and Colonial Ghosts in Jamaica Kincaid's <em>Annie John</em>.
… to Annie is uncovered and analyzed. As West Indian writers, particularly women writers, gain more recognition, it is crucial to acknowledge and understand the effects that growing up on a colonized island has upon West Indians. A deeper reading of Annie John exposes the prejudices and power …
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Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward
<p>Mulk Raj Anand is an innovator in literature. He is one of the first Indian authors to write in English about the humanitarian dilemmas facing India during the mid-twentieth century. His compassionate objective is to produce an awareness of the cruelty and inhumane practices of untouchability …
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A map of this place: Memory and the afterlives of removal
… American, Palestinian American, and American Indian/First Nations novels and memoirs. Each of the four chapters features three texts, one from each canon. For my primary texts, I take up works by the following authors: Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Nancy Kricorian, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, …
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Subjectivities in Decolonisation: The Post-Independence Film and Novel in Africa and South Asia
… African and South Asian film and literatures for their attention to the fraught relationship between subjectivity and historic decolonisation. Amidst social, political and economic obstacles in the 1950s–80s, a pioneering generation of novels and films emerged. Although they were …