Bharathipura

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-808202-6
Verlag: Sydney University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: Oxford India Paperbacks

Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 and The Hindu Literary Review Prize 2011
U.R. Ananthamurthy, eminent writer and Jnanpith awardee
Novel focusses on issues of caste and untouchability

First published in 1973, Bharathipura is about the practice of untouchability in a traditional society that is evolving into modernity through new economic forces brought in by a certain class of people. The story revolves around the life of an 'enlightened' modern Indian, Jagannatha. Violent and unexpected events follow Jagannatha's attempts to revolutionize everyone and everything by linking his own transformation to the changes he wishes to orchestrate. With ist display of literary discipline in handling intertwining themes, the novel exposes the complexities of the caste system and the myth of social justice in modern India.

Zielgruppe

General readers and students and scholars of Indian writing, comparative literature, and translation and cultural studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ananthamurthy, U R

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author's Note
Translator's Note
Introduction
BHARATHIPURA
In Conversation: U.R. Ananthamurthy and N. Manu Chakravarthy
Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Ananthamurthy, U R
U.R. Ananthamurthy, a teacher of English literature and one of India's leading contemporary writers, does all his creative writing in Kannada. A Jnanpith awardee and author of five novels, including the widely acclaimed Samskara (English translation, OUP 1976), he has six collections of short stories, five collections of poems, a play, and sixteen volumes of critical writings. He was Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University (Kerala) and President, Central Sahitya Akademi.

U.R. Ananthamurthy, a teacher of English literature and one of India's leading contemporary writers, does all his creative writing in Kannada. A Jnanpith awardee and author of five novels, including the widely acclaimed Samskara (English translation, OUP 1976), he has six collections of short stories, five collections of poems, a play, and sixteen volumes of critical writings. He was Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University (Kerala) and President, Central Sahitya Akademi.