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020			_a9780195692082
100	1		_aMukherjee, Meenakshi.
245	1	0	_aElusive terrain : _bculture and literary memory / _cMeenakshi Mukherjee.
260			_aNew Delhi ; _bOxford University Press, _c2008.
300			_axvi, 201 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_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. _g _r _t
520			_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.
650		0	_aIndic literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
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