01777cam a2200181 4500 6650 2008307853 019569208X 9780195692082 Mukherjee, Meenakshi. Elusive terrain : culture and literary memory / Meenakshi Mukherjee. New Delhi ; Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 201 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. CONTENTS: 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. Divided 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. Indic literature 20th century History and criticism. 5600 5600 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2018-11-27 10400 0 891.4 MUK 30011459 2018-11-27 00:00:00 2018-11-27 MAIN