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Role of Language, Literature and Culture in Nation Building: Essays in the Construction of Political Reality, Edited by Sandip Sarkar, Shashikanta Tarai, and Anoop Kumar Tiwari

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Pages:354
ISBN:1-4955-0891-9
978-1-4955-0891-2
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Edited by Sandip Sarkar, Shashikanta Tarai, and Anoop Kumar Tiwari

From the Introduction (pg. 1):
This editorial volume offers an interdisciplinary approach of conceptualizing thematic-theoretical notions covering the cross-cultural, linguistics and literary roots of nationalism and nation-states.

Table of Contents

Introduction - The Role of Language, Literature and Culture in Nation Building
Chapter 1 Literature, Nation, and Nationalism: The Co-production of Intertwined Realities,
by Harshana Rambukwella
Chapter 2 Role of Flipside Society in Nation Building: A Study on the Condition of the Kashmiris in Munnu:
A Boy from Kashmir

by Manjula S. & Sangeeta Mukherjee
Chapter 3 Critiquing the Curious Clash of Nationalism and Nativism in Bhisham Sahani's Tamas
by Saikat Majumdar & Sandip Sarkar
Chapter 4 Co-evolution of Language, Culture and Nationalism:Evidence from Theoretic and Applied
Meta-Discourse
by Roopak Kumar, Anbu Savekar & S. Tarai
Chapter 5 Literature and History: Retrospecting the Liberation War on Bangladesh through Tahmima Anam's
A Golden Age
by Krupali Parekh & Urvashi Kaushal
Chapter 6 National Heroes in Children's Literature: Interpreting the Significance of Amar Chitra Katha
in Nation Building
by Chandni Sengupta
Chapter 7 Sunset and Sunrise at Kanchenjunga: Reading Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss from
Postmodern Lenses
by Madhusmita Pati
Chapter 8 Narrating Nationhood through Female Mouthpieces: A Critique of Select Bollywood Films
by V. K. Karthika
Chapter 9 Imaging Nation and National Culture in a Diasporic World: Bollywood Films as a Foundational
Source of Soft Power
by Rashmi Singh
Chapter 10 Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh Dinkar: A Whistle Blower of the National Consciousness
Movement in India
by Nirmala Tiwari & Anoop Kr. Tiwari
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