Folklore and the Alternative Modernities

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In this book, an attempt has been made to deal with the study of folklore and the alternative modernities associated with it. The research papers closely examine how folk literature, classical literature and modern literature exchange hands to enrich each other. In the papers, there are well-knit examples from the oral as well as written literatures of different regions of India with a few comparative studies from the world literatures. The volume experiments with a flexible view of folk, not making folk a part of the marginal literature by pushing it to a period much before history. Thus, the modern texts in literature that have made explicit use of the folk to make it available to the readers today are also treated at par with the folk texts that have had only the oral tradition, called the ‘pure folk’.

This volume would be of immense value for the literature teachers, researchers, folklorists, anthropologists, experts of social psychology, marginal studies and developmental studies, culture critics, linguists and policy planners.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nandini Sahu

Dr. Nandini Sahu (1972) completed her Ph.D. in Indian English Literature under the guidance of Prof. Niranjan Mohanty, Visva Bharati, Shantiniketan. She was awarded with gold medals during her graduation and post-graduation I English Literature. She is a creative writer and poet. Her poems and critical articles have been published in India, Pakistan and the U.S. She is also the award winner of the all India Poetry contest. She has been teaching English, Linguistics and Creative Literature. Presently she is working on American Literature for her D.Litt.

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Title
Folklore and the Alternative Modernities
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788172736224
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556p.
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