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Vakulabharanam, Rajagopal.

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Self and society in transition: A study of modern autobiographical practice in Telugu (India).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Self and society in transition: A study of modern autobiographical practice in Telugu (India)./
Author:	Vakulabharanam, Rajagopal.
Description:	269 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 2996.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08A.
Subject:	Literature, Asian. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3143077
ISBN:	0496010522

Self and society in transition: A study of modern autobiographical practice in Telugu (India).
Vakulabharanam, Rajagopal.

Self and society in transition: A study of modern autobiographical practice in Telugu (India). - 269 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 2996.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004.

This dissertation analyzes seven texts selected from the corpus of autobiographies in the southern Indian language of Telugu written between 1830 and 1945. These autobiographies reflect various social and political discourses that circulated in society during the colonial period. A close textual reading is used to bring out the salient features of the texts and their embedded contexts. Though there is some evidence of autobiographical thinking and self-reflexivity in the Indian languages in the precolonial period, this genre along with certain other new genres emerged in the nineteenth century. The chronological and sequential life narrative was adopted in emulation of the Western form. However, the new genre combined this Western form with the already available precolonial narrative forms such as biography and history in specific ways that reflected the uniqueness of the Indian colonial condition. As time progressed, self-narratives were considerably indigenized, and life narrators considerably improvised. There is considerable intertextuality between different autobiographies as they deal with similar themes and adopt related styles.

ISBN: 0496010522Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017599
Literature, Asian.

Self and society in transition: A study of modern autobiographical practice in Telugu (India).
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520 $a Colonial rule clearly had an impact on both the indigenous and historical models of the Indian self and on the practices of self-writing. The colonial Indian self, though exhibiting some modern characteristics, remained firmly rooted in family and society. It was not an alienated self. The gaze was equally external as it was internal, as the autobiographers noted with interest what happened in society. They did so however without losing focus on the self, the defining feature of the life narrative. Individuals of the colonial period (and after) are best understood in their relation to the larger collectivities of social class, nation, religious community, or ethnic group. Thus the personal stories are always in dialogue with social and cultural formations. The analysis of the autobiographies in Telugu thus enables the writing of the 'social history' of the Telugu-speaking region, albeit from a specific vantage point.
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