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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chaudhry, Ishmeet Kaur

Titel

Social Imagination and Nation Image: Exploring the Sociocultural Milieu in Regional Indian Short Stories Translated in English

Ist Teil von

• The English Paradigm in India, 2017, p.73-89

Ort / Verlag

Singapore: Springer Singapore Pte. Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this chapter, an attempt has been made to trace the development and contribution of short story writing in Indian literature through a study of stories chosen across different regions in India. It is significant to note that short story, the form, plays a very important role in the ‘nation-building’ project around the freedom movement of India. Though short story came into circulation before independence, it continues to evolve and influence several movements and traditions that account for nation as a construct even recently. A study of the stories from different regions and languages of India, ranging across twentieth century, highlights the importance of the regional literature. They seem to elaborate an understanding of India from sociopolitical perspectives. Thus, relocating the defining factors of a nation within regional literatures is more significant. Though stories have been chosen across a very wide time frame (more than a full century), an effort has been made to connect them through several themes which in ways provide patterns to several movements while defining nation in the Indian context.