Description: India's Forests, Real and Imagined : Writing the Modern Nation, Hardcover by Johnson, Alan G., ISBN 0755634101, ISBN-13 9780755634101, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 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. Th casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay - widely regarded as the first Indian novelist - to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri as well as local attitudesto nationhood and the environment across the country"--
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Book Title: India's Forests, Real and Imagined : Writing the Modern Nation
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: India's Forests, Real and Imagined : Writing the Modern Nation
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Asian / Indic, Subjects & Themes / Nature, Modern / General, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2023
Item Weight: 20.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Alan Johnson
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
