Critical Discourse in Marathi

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-138-05095-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Critical Discourses in South Asia

This volume forms part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series, which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Marathi literature and its critical tradition across a several centuries. The book presents one of a kind historiography of Marathi literature and of its critical discourse. It brings together English translations of major writings of influential figures dealing with the question of caste, gender and aesthetic in the novel, poetry, myth, folk-culture, philosophical discourse, bilingual literary practice and literary form. It also studies the role of Marathi criticism in the context of the social history of Maharashtra.

Comprehensive and authoritative, this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Marathi literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Marathi language and literature, literary criticism, literary theory, comparative literature, Indian literature, cultural studies, art and aesthetics, performance studies, history, sociology, regional studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Marathi-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Maharashtra and Western India and conservation of the language and their culture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Devy, G.N.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: What is Freedom? Chapter Two: What is Gender? Chapter Three: What is Fiction? Chapter Four: What is Caste? Chapter Five: What is Aesthetics? Chapter Six: What is Myth? Chapter Seven: What is Discourse? Chapter Eight: What is Historiography? Chapter Nine: What is Poetry Chapter Ten: What is Literature? Chapter Eleven: What is Dalit Politics? Chapter Twelve: What is Multiculturalism? Chapter Thirteen: What is ‘Folk-culture’ Chapter Fourteen: What is Form? Chapter Fifteen: The Making of Marathi Critical Discourse

Über Autor(innen)

G. N. Devy is former Professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of English, is currently the Obadi Siddiqi Chair Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore and Honorary Senior Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. He has published extensively in areas such as Literary Criticism, Philosophy, History, Education, Linguistics and Anthropology. He writes in Marathi, Gujarati and English. He has received the fourth highest civilian honour of Padmashri for his work in culture and education.