Epic Nation

Lothspeich, Pamela:
Epic nation : Reimagining the Mahābhārata in the Age of the Empire / Pamela Lothspeich. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xii, 283 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-0-19-569659-2
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Hochschulschrift. Teilw. zugl.: New York, Columbia Univ., Diss., 2003 unter dem Titel: The Mahābhārat in Hindi literature, 1910-1940 and Hindu national identity
-- Angekündigt für Januar 2009 --

Beschreibung
Epic Nation shows how the reimagining of the Mahabharata at the height of British domination served as a form of protest and resistance to colonial rule, while also providing ideological support for the Indian nationalist movement. Pamela Lothspeich examines the much debated relationship between Hindu neo-classicism in Hindi literature and theatre, the rise of the Hindi movement, and the development of Hindu national identity in north India in the decades leading up to Independence.
   Drawing from a wide range of literary genres including poems, plays, and narrative prose—from the popular to the elite — Lothspeich also discusses the sometimes ambiguous relationship between myth and history, the debates and controversies within the Hindi movement, as well as the complex issue of communalism in the construction of an idealized Hindu past.
   This volume comes equipped with a comprehensive glossary of literary terms, an appendix citing Hindi literature based on the Mahabharata (1866–2008), and a detailed bibliography. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Preface
Note on transliteration
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Epic time and India's Pasts
A genealogy of Paurāṇik literature
Retelling the Mahābhārata: early interventions
The Khaṛī Bolī campaign and a renaissance of Hindu myth
The edifying waves of Jayadrath-vadh
Vīr Abhimanyu and the fabulous Parsi theatre
Kuru-van-dahan nāṭak, or Veṇisaṃhāra remodelled
The apotheosis of a Queen in Dev Draupad
Conclusion
Epilogue
Glossary of literary terms
Appendix: Hindi literature based on the Mahābhārata
Bibliography
Index

Autorin
PAMELA LOTHSPEICH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department page.

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