Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India: Moving Lines by Laetitia Zecchini PDF

By Laetitia Zecchini

ISBN-10: 1441167501

ISBN-13: 9781441167507

ISBN-10: 1474275664

ISBN-13: 9781474275668

during this first scholarly paintings on India's nice sleek poet, Laetitia Zecchini outlines a narrative of literary modernism in India and discusses the traditions, figures and occasions that encouraged and outlined Arun Kolatkar. according to a magnificent diversity of archival and unpublished fabric, this publication additionally goals at moving lines of permitted genealogies of modernism and 'postcolonial literature'.

Zecchini uncovers how poets of Kolatkar's new release turned sleek Indian writers whereas tracing a lineage to medieval oral traditions. She considers how literary bilingualism allowed Kolatkar to blur the bounds among Marathi and English, 'Indian' and 'Western assets; how he used his outsider place to privilege the quotidian and minor and revived the spirit of renowned devotion.

Graphic artist, poet and songwriter, storyteller of Bombay and global heritage, poet in Marathi, in English and in 'Americanese', non-committal and deeply political, Kolatkar made traces wobble and valuable impermanence. Steeped in international literature, in eu avant-garde poetry, American pop and people tradition, in a 'little journal' Bombay bohemia and a particular Marathi ethos, Kolatkar makes for a desirable topic to discover and clarify the tale of modernism in India.

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