1st Edition
Poetry, Politics and Culture Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts
1. Preface 2. Acknowledgement Part I: Mapping Nation/Post-nation 3. Negotiating Nationalism(s): Hindi Poetry during and after the Colonial Period 4. De-fetishising Home/Homelessness: Nation in Post-1990s Hindi Poetry 5. From Hyphen to High-fun: Towards a Topology of New Indian-English Diaspora Poetry Part II: Re-writing Culture 6. From Nationalist Icon to Subaltern Subject, and Beyond: Latter day Meeras 7. Kissa as the Locus of Cultural History: Kissa Pooran Bhagat in Modern Punjabi Literature 8. Translating Bhakti: Versions of Kabir in the Colonial/Early Nationalist Period 9. Anxieties of Native Decent/Dissent: Bhakti Sub-text of Indian English Verse Part III: Disseminating Dissent 10. Poetry of Incarceration: Punjabi Prison Poetry from Ghadar to Emergency and Beyond 11. From Participation to Protest: Political Conciousness of Modern Indian English Poetry 12. From Confusion to Consolidation: Politics of Counter-aesthetics in Dalit Poetry 13. On the frontiers of the Public Sphere: Indian Women’s Poetry from Pre-1947 to Post 9/11 14. Bibliography 15. Index
Biography
Akshaya Kumar is Reader at Punjab University (Chandigarh) since 1998. He has published a number of research papers on Indian poetry and has authored A.K. Ramanujan: In Profile and Fragment.
