India's Forests, Real and Imagined

Writing the Modern Nation

Alan Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7556-3410-1 (ISBN)

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As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India’s writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India’s Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay – widely regarded as the first Indian novelist – to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.

Alan Johnson is Professor of English at Idaho State University, USA. He is the author of Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement (2011) and articles on topics ranging from environmental literature in India to Hindi film.

Preface: The Plan of the Book
The Argument and Its Scope
A Note on Translation
1. Introduction: Epic Forests, Sacred Groves and Vernacular Jungles: Forests in Context
2. Colonial Modernity, National Romance, and the Global Trade in Wood
3. Forest, Village, Nation
4. Home Forest, Outlaw Forest: Indigeneity, Forestry, and National Hegemony
5. The Forest and the City: Aspiration, Cosmopolitanism, and Pollution
Conclusion: Language Politics, Religious Ideologies, and the Fate of Forests

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-7556-3410-1 / 0755634101
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-3410-1 / 9780755634101
Zustand	Neuware