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Culture, Transformation and Identity captures the excitement of the nineteen creative and exploratory essays concerning journeys, physical and psychological, in search of knowledge and spiritual peace, escape from oneself or one’s past, a new beginning or a search for roots and identity, adventure and conquest, business or trade. Opening out multidimensional movement of imagination and through cross-cultural dialogue some eminent writers here deal with ...
The present volume of thirty-three essays brings to the reader a sampling of Kaul's scholarship. Ranging over a period of three centuries, they explore political ideas, Utopian vistas, modes of satire, generic developments and fictional flights. History and philosophy rub shoulders with each other as eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries unfold themselves in different ways. The writer's grounding in his home culture has leaped across languages and ...
Contemporary Indian Drama: Astride Two Tradition is a collection of twenty-two essays, an interview and a few poems translated from Hindi on Metatheatre that bring in a large variety of issues related to dramaturgy, interpretative processes and directorial interventions. Divided into three sections, the first focuses on theoretical and historical perspectives, contextualised with reference to contemporary Indian drama in English and English translations. This is ...
Gender, History and Culture: Inside the Haveli contains 22 essays that cover various aspects of Rama Mehta's novel Inside the Haveli. Each one of these explores a new dimension - linguistic structures, historical background, Rajasthani traditions, feudalism, ethnography, lifestyles, purdah, categories of power, family and gender relations. Placed within multiple frames, sociology, history and aesthetics find their own balance. Inside the Haveli, the only ...
Gender, History and Culture: Inside the Haveli contains 22 essays that cover various aspects of Rama Mehta's novel Inside the Haveli. Each one of these explores a new dimensions -linguistic structures, historical background, rajasthani traditions, feudalism, ethnography, lifestyles, purdah, categories of power, family and gender relations. Placed within multiple frames, sociology, history and aesthetics find their own balance. Inside the haveli, the only ...