India's Forests, Real and Imagined

Writing the Modern Nation

AvAlan Johnson

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Engelska, 2022

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As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay – widely regarded as the first Indian novelist – to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-29
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780755634118
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Alan Johnson is Professor of English at Idaho State University, USA. He is the author of Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement (2011) and articles on topics ranging from environmental literature in India to Hindi film.

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We are currently witnessing a renaissance of arboreal literary criticism and cultural studies throughout the world. Alan Johnson's India's Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation richly explores the meaning of trees and forests in Indian literary works from the past century and a half, revealing the many dimensions of “arboreal India” but focusing chiefly on the use of forest imagery in critiquing colonialism and conceptualizing Indian nationalism. This is a clear, accessible, and authoritative introduction to Indian literature and to the significance of forests in many of India's diverse subcultures.

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Preface: The Plan of the BookThe Argument and Its ScopeA Note on Translation1. Introduction: Epic Forests, Sacred Groves and Vernacular Jungles: Forests in Context2. Colonial Modernity, National Romance, and the Global Trade in Wood3. Forest, Village, Nation4. Home Forest, Outlaw Forest: Indigeneity, Forestry, and National Hegemony5. The Forest and the City: Aspiration, Cosmopolitanism, and PollutionConclusion: Language Politics, Religious Ideologies, and the Fate of ForestsBibliographyIndex