Javed Majeed
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199259885
- eISBN:
- 9780191744587
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259885.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Asian History
This chapter outlines three broad issues which constitute the field of South Asian literary studies: the standardization of written forms of Indian languages, the location and constitution of texts ...
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This chapter outlines three broad issues which constitute the field of South Asian literary studies: the standardization of written forms of Indian languages, the location and constitution of texts in the relationships between Indian society and the colonial state, and the rupture between a modern and pre-modern poetics. The chapter focuses on the latter and explores the interplay between tradition and innovation in South Asian literary modernity. In doing so, it seeks to identify some of its key features in terms of its cosmopolitanism, its experimentation, and the nature of the creative choices open to authors and poets in the subcontinent under colonialism.Less
This chapter outlines three broad issues which constitute the field of South Asian literary studies: the standardization of written forms of Indian languages, the location and constitution of texts in the relationships between Indian society and the colonial state, and the rupture between a modern and pre-modern poetics. The chapter focuses on the latter and explores the interplay between tradition and innovation in South Asian literary modernity. In doing so, it seeks to identify some of its key features in terms of its cosmopolitanism, its experimentation, and the nature of the creative choices open to authors and poets in the subcontinent under colonialism.
Peter Schmidt
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781934110393
- eISBN:
- 9781604733112
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781934110393.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This book explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy toward its ...
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This book explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy toward its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history. Many rarely studied fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourgée, Frances E. W. Harper, Sutton Griggs, George Washington Cable, Mark Twain, Thomas Dixon, Owen Wister, and W. E. B. Du Bois are illuminated in significant new ways. The book’s readings seek to synthesize developments in literary and cultural studies, ranging through New Criticism, New Historicism, postcolonial studies, black studies, and “whiteness” studies. The book posits and answers significant questions: In what ways did the “uplift” projects of Reconstruction—their ideals and their contradictions—affect U.S. colonial policies in the new territories after 1898? How can fiction that treated these historical changes help us understand them? What relevance does this period have for us in the present, during a moment of great literary innovation and strong debate over how well the most powerful country in the world uses its resources?Less
This book explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy toward its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history. Many rarely studied fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourgée, Frances E. W. Harper, Sutton Griggs, George Washington Cable, Mark Twain, Thomas Dixon, Owen Wister, and W. E. B. Du Bois are illuminated in significant new ways. The book’s readings seek to synthesize developments in literary and cultural studies, ranging through New Criticism, New Historicism, postcolonial studies, black studies, and “whiteness” studies. The book posits and answers significant questions: In what ways did the “uplift” projects of Reconstruction—their ideals and their contradictions—affect U.S. colonial policies in the new territories after 1898? How can fiction that treated these historical changes help us understand them? What relevance does this period have for us in the present, during a moment of great literary innovation and strong debate over how well the most powerful country in the world uses its resources?
