An Ambiguous Journey to the City

The Village and Othe Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination

Ashis Nandy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2006
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-568397-4 (ISBN)

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Divided into four sections, this book tells the story of India's ambivalent affair with the modern city through the myth of the journey between the village and the city, and the changes that myth has undergone. It looks at the vicissitudes of the metaphor of journey; profiles various heroes; and focuses on a psychopathological journey.

Divided into four sections, this book tells the story of India's ambivalent affair with the modern city throug hthe myth of the journey between the village and the city, and the changes that myth has undergone. It loks at the vicissitudes of the metaphor of journey; profiles various heroes as they negotiate the transitions from the village to the city and back to the village; and focuses on the psychopathological journey from a poisoned village into a self-annihilating city.

Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 214 mm
Gewicht	167 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-568397-8 / 0195683978
ISBN-13	978-0-19-568397-4 / 9780195683974
Zustand	Neuware