The Mahatma misunderstood : the politics and forms of literary nationalism in India / / Snehal Shingavi [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Shingavi Snehal
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 891/.4
• Soggetto topico: Indic fiction - History and criticism; National characteristics, East Indian, in literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Mahatma as proof: the nationalist origins of the historiography of Indian writing in English -- The Mahatma didn't say so, but ... : Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and the sympathies of middle-class nationalists -- The Mahatma may be all wrong about politics, but ... : Raja Rao's Kanthapura and the religious imagination of the Indian, secular, nationalist middle class -- The missing Mahatma: Ahmed Ali and the aesthetics of Muslim anticolonialism -- The grammar of the Gandhians: Jayaprakash Narayan and the figure of Gandhi -- The Mahatma misunderstood: the arrested development of the nationalist dialectic -- Conclusion: Dangerous solidarities.
• Sommario/riassunto: ‘The Mahatma Misunderstood’ is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime, and explains why novelists both vehemently critiqued and lovingly collaborated with the Mahatma simultaneously.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Mahatma misunderstood
• ISBN: 1-299-24272-3; 0-85728-647-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465465303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthem South Asian Studies