東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

The country and the village : = Representations of the rural in twentieth-century South Asian literatures.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The country and the village :/
Reminder of title:	Representations of the rural in twentieth-century South Asian literatures.
Author:	Mohan, Anupama.
Description:	1 online resource (320 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International74-11A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR97120click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780494971208

The country and the village : = Representations of the rural in twentieth-century South Asian literatures.
Mohan, Anupama.

The country and the village :Representations of the rural in twentieth-century South Asian literatures. - 1 online resource (320 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2010.

Includes bibliographical references

Twentieth-century Indian and Sri Lankan literatures (in English, in particular) have shown a strong tendency towards conceptualising the rural and the village within the dichotomous paradigms of utopia and dystopia. Such representations have consequently cast the village in idealized (pastoral) or in realist (counter-pastoral/dystopic) terms. In Chapters One and Two, I read together Mohandas Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (1908) and Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913) and argue that Gandhi and Woolf can be seen at the head of two important, but discrete, ways of reading the South Asian village vis-a-vis utopian thought, and that at the intersection of these two ways lies a rich terrain for understanding the many forms in which later twentieth-century South Asian writers chose to re-create city-village-nation dialectics. In this light, I examine in Chapter Three the work of Raja Rao (Kanthapura, 1938) and O. V. Vijayan (The Legends of Khasak, 1969) and in Chapter Four the writings of Martin Wickramasinghe (Gamperaliya, 1944) and Punyakante Wijenaike (The Waiting Earth, 1966) as providing a re-visioning of Gandhi's and Woolf's ideas of the rural as a site for civic and national transformation. I conclude by examining in Chapter Five Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost (2000) and Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide (2005) as emblematic of a recent turn in South Asian fiction centred on the rural where the village embodies a ''heterotopic'' space that critiques and offers a conceptual alternative to the categorical imperatives of utopia and dystopia. I use Michel Foucault's notion of the ''heterotopia'' to re-evaluate the utopian dimension in these novels. Although Foucault himself under-theorized the notion of heterotopia and what he did say connected the idea to urban landscapes and imaginaries, we may yet recuperate from his formulations a ''third space'' of difference that provides an opportunity to rethink the imperatives of utopia in literature and helps understand the rural in twentieth-century South Asian writing in new ways.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780494971208Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

IndiaIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

The country and the village : = Representations of the rural in twentieth-century South Asian literatures.
LDR:03656nmm a2200457K 4500 001 2361299
005 20231023072139.5
006 m o d
007 cr mn ---uuuuu
008 241011s2010 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9780494971208
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAINR97120
035 $a (MiAaPQ)utoronto:32945
035 $a AAINR97120
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Mohan, Anupama. $3 1599367
245 1 4 $a The country and the village : $b Representations of the rural in twentieth-century South Asian literatures.
264 0 $c 2010
300 $a 1 online resource (320 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11, Section: A.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
500 $a Advisor: Kanaganayakam, Chelva.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2010.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a Twentieth-century Indian and Sri Lankan literatures (in English, in particular) have shown a strong tendency towards conceptualising the rural and the village within the dichotomous paradigms of utopia and dystopia. Such representations have consequently cast the village in idealized (pastoral) or in realist (counter-pastoral/dystopic) terms. In Chapters One and Two, I read together Mohandas Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (1908) and Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913) and argue that Gandhi and Woolf can be seen at the head of two important, but discrete, ways of reading the South Asian village vis-a-vis utopian thought, and that at the intersection of these two ways lies a rich terrain for understanding the many forms in which later twentieth-century South Asian writers chose to re-create city-village-nation dialectics. In this light, I examine in Chapter Three the work of Raja Rao (Kanthapura, 1938) and O. V. Vijayan (The Legends of Khasak, 1969) and in Chapter Four the writings of Martin Wickramasinghe (Gamperaliya, 1944) and Punyakante Wijenaike (The Waiting Earth, 1966) as providing a re-visioning of Gandhi's and Woolf's ideas of the rural as a site for civic and national transformation. I conclude by examining in Chapter Five Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost (2000) and Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide (2005) as emblematic of a recent turn in South Asian fiction centred on the rural where the village embodies a ''heterotopic'' space that critiques and offers a conceptual alternative to the categorical imperatives of utopia and dystopia. I use Michel Foucault's notion of the ''heterotopia'' to re-evaluate the utopian dimension in these novels. Although Foucault himself under-theorized the notion of heterotopia and what he did say connected the idea to urban landscapes and imaginaries, we may yet recuperate from his formulations a ''third space'' of difference that provides an opportunity to rethink the imperatives of utopia in literature and helps understand the rural in twentieth-century South Asian writing in new ways.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2023
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Asian literature. $3 2122707
653 $a India
653 $a Literature
653 $a Postcolonial
653 $a Rao, Raja
653 $a Rural representations
653 $a South Asia
653 $a Sri Lanka
653 $a Vijayan, O. V.
653 $a Wickramasinghe, Martin
653 $a Woolf, Leonard
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 lcsh $3 542853
690 $a 0305
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 783688
710 2 $a University of Toronto (Canada). $b English. $3 3280362
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 74-11A.
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR97120 $z click for full text (PQDT)