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Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance book cover

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Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance

Edited By Mohammad A. Quayum Copyright 2020
300 Pages
by Routledge India

300 Pages
by Routledge India

300 Pages
by Routledge India
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This book is a fresh examination of Rabindranath Tagore’s ideas on nationalism and his rhetoric of cosmopolitanism. It critically analyses the poetics and the politics of his works and specifically responds to Tagore’s three lectures on nationalism delivered during the early years of the twentieth century and later compiled in his book Nationalism (1917). This volume: Discusses... Read more

Introduction

Mohammad A. Quayum

Part I: Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations, Ambiguities, Limitations and Contemporary Relevance

1. Antinomies of Nationalism and Rabindranath Tagore

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

2. Rabindranath Tagore’s Engagement with Nationalism

Serajul Islam Chowdhury

3. Imagining "One World": Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of Nationalism

Mohammad A. Quayum

4. Visva-Bharati: Tagore’s Response to Aggressive Nationalism?

Kathleen M. O’Connell

5. Nationalism Then and Now: An Exploration of Tagore’s Relevance Today

Christine Marsh

6. Pilgrim Man: Rabindranath Tagore’s Cosmopolitanism and Cosmic Consciousness

Narasingha P. Sil

7. Tagore, Cosmopolitanism and Secular Ethic

Satish C. Aikant

8. For Love of Country: Debating Martha Nussbaum on Cosmopolitanism in Tagore

Bindu Puri

Part II: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Interrogating the Genres

9. Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism and Poetry – Message of Universal Humanism

Shanta Acharya

10. "Hungry Stone": Colonial Uncanny and the Return of the Repressed

Dipankar Roy

11. Narrating Nation, Society, Cosmopolitanism and Culture: A Study of Three Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Lalita Pandit Hogan

12. Finding One’s Home Abroad: Tagore’s Thinking on Nation in the Travelogues to Japan and Persia

Anindya Bhattacharya

13. On Music and Memory: Rabindranath Tagore’s Songs of Nature in the Age of Nationalism

Saurav Dasthakur

14. Cinematic Representations of Rabindranath Tagore’s Views of Nationalism: The Figure of the "Patriot" in Ghare Baire and Elar Char Adhyay

Srimati Mukherjee

Biography

Mohammad A. Quayum is Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia and Adjunct Professor at Flinders University and the University of South Australia. His books on Tagore include Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore (2014), and Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories (trans.; 2014).

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