01750cam a2200169   45000010005000000100017000050200015000220200018000371000026000552450075000812600049001563000026002055040051002315050679002825200560009616500059015216650  a  2008307853  a019569208X  a97801956920821 aMukherjee, Meenakshi.10aElusive terrain :bculture and literary memory /cMeenakshi Mukherjee.  aNew Delhi ;bOxford University Press,c2008.  axvi, 201 p. ;c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aCONTENTS: Locality of culture -- English in an uneven  land -- His films, their stories -- Indian films in  english -- Internal diaspora: translating from a  neighbouring language -- The house and the road: two  modes of nostalgia -- Mapping an elusive terrain:  literary debates in India in the last half century --  Uses of the past -- Women and Christianity: three texts  from nineteenth-century India -- From the margins of  history: Agnes smedley and virendranath chattopadhyay --  History and Imagined history: romesh chunder dutt's  construction of the past -- Tod's rjasthan and the  Bengali imagination -- Narrating a nation -- Whose  center, which periphery.grt  aDivided into two sections, the thirteen essays included   in this volume address diverse issues pertaining to   modern India. The first section examines a few strands   among the many that are woen in the texture of India's   plural existence: language, translation, films,   migration, nostalgia for a lost home, literary debates   that cut across regions, while most essays in the second   section go back in time to inquire the questions of   religion, politics, the construction of the nation and   forming of identities that constitute India's past.  0aIndic literaturey20th centuryxHistory and criticism.