LSML 01: Issues in Modern Hindi Literature

 

 

“Issues in modern Hindi literature” brings together influential articles written by researchers – both eminent and emerging – who examine and discuss various burning issues in modern Hindi literature such as modernism, the modern literary hero, poetics of the displaced, the role of folk culture, women’s perspective in literature, experimentation with truth in biographies, the self-realization of heroines, representation of Muslims and regional communities in literature, transformations in the old Indian aesthetics, Bollywood music, the Loriki epic, humanistic perspectives, experiments with Hindi lexicon and the portrayal of women. The volume thus encapsulates results of detailed research carried out by some leading Hindi scholars on a wide range of topics, gives a rich and in-depth account of the vitality of current research, and provides the reader with a snapshot of current developments in modern Hindi literary criticism which will undoubtedly broaden our understanding of modern Hindi literature.