Nativism (Desivad)
Book Details
Author(s)
Bhalchandra Nemade
ISBN / ASIN
817986071X
ISBN-13
9788179860717
Sales Rank
#99,999,999
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Language: English
Pages: 180
From the Jacket
This is an infuriating and yet thoroughly admirable book that will give the Indian reader a confidence about what our languages need most-a sense of piety towards our own cultural environments. That is what the author wants everyone to do, at least paradoxically, a search for an alternate tradition which opens within ourselves, preserving even now the history, orality, living traditions and folklore. Desivad naturally negates any imagined space that oppresses the real and aggressively asserts what was otherwise relegated, during the dark phase of colonialism, to one’s native cultural heritage.
A landmark in Indian critical theory, discussed all over the country from 1980, desivad aspires to be a nationwide movement to counterbalance the homogenizing and hegemonizing effects of a few cultures of nationalism, globalization, internationalism and so on.
The four lectures delivered at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study have caused an intellectual stimulation of a rare sot and a whose new approach to literary criticism.
Bhalchandra Nemade, distinguished Marathi poet, novelist and critic, taught Marathi, English and Linguistics at several places including Marathwada University, Aurangabad, The School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Goa University. He retired from the Gurudev Tagore Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Mumbai in 1998. he was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991.
Nemade is known to say unexpected, revealing and illuminating things in memorable terms, avoiding any jargon. It exemplifies the penetrating mind and questioning spirit which was the characteristic of our tradition.
He is presently National Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
Preface
The four lectures, which the book
Pages: 180
From the Jacket
This is an infuriating and yet thoroughly admirable book that will give the Indian reader a confidence about what our languages need most-a sense of piety towards our own cultural environments. That is what the author wants everyone to do, at least paradoxically, a search for an alternate tradition which opens within ourselves, preserving even now the history, orality, living traditions and folklore. Desivad naturally negates any imagined space that oppresses the real and aggressively asserts what was otherwise relegated, during the dark phase of colonialism, to one’s native cultural heritage.
A landmark in Indian critical theory, discussed all over the country from 1980, desivad aspires to be a nationwide movement to counterbalance the homogenizing and hegemonizing effects of a few cultures of nationalism, globalization, internationalism and so on.
The four lectures delivered at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study have caused an intellectual stimulation of a rare sot and a whose new approach to literary criticism.
Bhalchandra Nemade, distinguished Marathi poet, novelist and critic, taught Marathi, English and Linguistics at several places including Marathwada University, Aurangabad, The School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Goa University. He retired from the Gurudev Tagore Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Mumbai in 1998. he was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991.
Nemade is known to say unexpected, revealing and illuminating things in memorable terms, avoiding any jargon. It exemplifies the penetrating mind and questioning spirit which was the characteristic of our tradition.
He is presently National Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
Preface
The four lectures, which the book
