Critical Discourse in Gujarati

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2025
Routledge India (Verlag)
9781032671611 (ISBN)

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This volume forms part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series, which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Gujarati literature and its critical tradition across a century / several centuries. The book presents one of a kind historiography of Gujarati literature and of its critical discourse. It brings together English translations of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory, aesthetic and performative traditions, and re-interpretations of primary concepts and categories in Gujarati. It initiates an exploration into Gujarati critical discourse from the heather to neglected pre-colonial centuries and presents key texts in literary and cultural studies, some of which are being made available for the first time into English. These seminal essays explore complex interconnections understand the dynamics of critical discursive situations in Gujarati literature and to carefully construct a mobile post of observation that matches those dynamics. They offer a radical departure from the widespread historiographical practice in Indian writings of disregarding pre-colonial literary critical discourse. The book also offers a new and indigenous periodization of Gujarati literature and its critical discourse, derived from a fresh perception of Gujarati and Indian literary culture.

Comprehensive and authoritative, this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Gujrati literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Gujarati language and literature, literary criticism, literary theory, comparative literature, Indian literature, cultural studies, art and aesthetics, performance studies, history, sociology, regional studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Gujarati-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Gujarat and Western India and conservation of the language and their culture.

Sitanshu Yashaschandra is a renowned Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic. He has received Sahitya Akademi Award, Kabir Samman (Madhya Pradesh), Gangadhar Maher Award (Orissa), Kusumagraja Samman (Maharashtra) and was awarded Padma Shri in 2006.

List of Translators

Preface

Introduction: Critical Discourse in Gujarati: A Vikalpa Vachana

SITANSHU YASHASCHANDRA

1 Sections Ka 1–5: Prarambha/Beginnings – Real Contra Colonial: Gujarati Critical Discourse from 12th to 18th Centuries C.E.

Bhalan (15th Century)

Mandana Bandharo (16th Century)

Akho Sonaro (16th/17th Century)

Mana-Bhatt Premanand (17th Century)

Shamal Bhatt (18th Century)

2 Sections Kha 1–3: Pratham Vivarta/First Variation: 1820–1915: Anya-bodha/Sva-bodha Kal/Period of Alien Cognition/Indigenous Cognition

Part I: 1820–1875 Sudharak Yug/Times of the Reformers

Dalpatram (1820–1898)

Narmadashankar Dave (Narmad)

Navalram Pandya

3 Sections Ga 1–7: Pratham Vivarta/First Variation: Part II: 1875–1915

Anandshankar Dhruv (1869–1942)

Govardhanram Tripathi (1855–1907)

Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi (1858–1898)

Ramanbhai Nilkanth (1868–1928)

Narasimharao Divetiya (1859–1937)

Nanalal Kavi (1877-1946)

Balavantaray Thakor (1869–1952)

4 Sections Gha 1–9: Dvitiya Vivarta/Second Variation: 1915–1955: Hind Svaraj Kal/Period of India Engendering its Freedom

Gha 1: Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Gha 2: K. M. Munshi (1887-1971)

Gha 3: Ramnarayan V. Pathak (1887-1955)

Gha 4: ‘Sundaram’ (Tribhuvandas Luhar) (1908-1991)

Gha 5: Umashankar Joshi (1911-1988)

Gha 6: Jhaverchand Meghani (1896-1947)

Gha 7: Ramprasad Bakshi (1894–1989)

Gha 8: Vishnuprasad Trivedi (1899-1991)

5 Sections Cha 1–9: Trutiya Vivarta/Third Variation: 1955 Onwards: Vyapana Shakti Kal. / Time of Energies for Enlargement

Suresh Joshi (1921-1986)

Niranjan Bhagat (1926-2018)

Harivallabh Bhayani (1917-2000)

Shirish Panchal (1943)

Chandrakant Topiwala (1936)

Himanshi Shelat (1947)

Babu Suthar (1955)

Bhagavandas Patel (1943)

Kanti Malsatar (1978)

Editor’s Note on Appendices 1, 2 3

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Critical Discourses in South Asia
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781032671611 / 9781032671611
Zustand	Neuware