{"product_id":"under-the-bhasha-gaze-modernity-and-indian-literature","title":"Under the Bhasha Gaze Modernity and Indian Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book is a study of literature in India in the context of recent discussions on modernity and its theoretical extensions such as the everyday and the social imaginary. It is a critique of the aesthetics and politics of modernity as they are embodied in Indian bhasha literature of the past two centuries. The primary objective of the book is to explore the trajectory of modernity after Indian literature encountered colonialism in the early 19th century. The\n\u003cbr\u003eintricate ways in which the bhasha imagination negotiated questions around concepts such as colonialism, aesthetics, the literary, the historical, and the social, have received focused attention in the\n\u003cbr\u003eanalysis. Although the study acknowledges the European provenance of modernity as a historical idea, it also recognizes the inherent complexity of the concept and its equivocal connotations when used with reference to the polyphonic bhasha communities in India. Theoretical issues debated in relation to modernity such as its conceptual affinities with the western enlightenment project, its ideological investment in European aesthetics, and its implication for the evolution of what might be\n\u003cbr\u003ecalled the hermetic aesthetic are significant to this study. The work also examines the regional strengths of the social imaginary that render a conventionally conceived modernity inadequate in explaining\n\u003cbr\u003ethe uniquely modern strengths of the Indian bhasha imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46058911072494,"sku":"9780192871558","price":154.48,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780192871558.jpg?v=1736486745","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/under-the-bhasha-gaze-modernity-and-indian-literature","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}