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082	0	4	_a301 _bDIM/I
245	0	0	_aImagining Indianness : _bcultural identity and literature / _cedited by Diana Dimitrova, Thomas de Bruijn.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aCham, Switzerland : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _cc2017.
300			_a1 online resource xviI, 166 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aPalgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
520			_aThis book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book 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 collection of essays examines questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and modern, 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.
650		0	_aAnthropology. _915202
650		0	_aCultural studies. _915289
650		0	_aEthnology _zAsia. _915204
650		0	_aEthnology. _915205
650		0	_aOriental literature. _915206
650	1	4	_aAnthropology. _915202
650	2	4	_aAsian Culture. _915207
650	2	4	_aAsian Literature. _915208
650	2	4	_aCultural Anthropology. _915209
650	2	4	_aCultural Studies. _915290
700	1		_aDe Bruijn, Thomas, _eeditor. _915211
700	1		_aDimitrova, Diana, _eeditor. _915212
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