Inlays Of Subjectivity by Nikhil Govind, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

This book discusses the question of subjectivity in modern Indian literature using some of the most influential literary texts of the last hundred years. Scholarship in Indian literature tends to be divided along the lines of region, language, historical period, class, caste and so on. However, this book, by foregrounding a concept - subjectivity - allows the concept to determine the architecture of the book. Thus there are chapters on the various modes of subjectivity - a sense of ethical subjectivity is often awakened by a fierce sense of injustice, and the first two chaptersdiscuss this, in the context of a contemporary Malayalam novel by KR Meera, and Urmila Pawar's memoir about her Dalit identity. The next two chapters delve into the literary history of selfhood in India - canonical writers such as the Hindi novelist Agyeya, the Urdu novelist Ismat Chughtai, and theBengali novelists Saratchandra Chatterjee and Rabindranath Tagore are discussed. The last chapter revisits these concerns through the many voices employed by the Hindi novelist Krishna Sobti, whose career straddles the second half of the twentieth century. | Inlays Of Subjectivity by Nikhil Govind, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters