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ID162463
Title ProperPluralising the Narrative
Other Title InformationReconfiguring ‘Vernacular Modernism’ in Assamese Literary Culture
LanguageENG
AuthorBorah, Abikal
Summary / Abstract (Note)The term ‘vernacular modernism’ came into being amidst proliferating conceptual frameworks to explain the diverse paradigms of modernity as a global process. More specifically, ‘vernacular modernism’ as a category of analysis emerged in an effort to democratise the term ‘modern’ with respect to non-metropolitan cultural formations. However, this conceptual category does not necessarily encompass the complex elements of all non-metropolitan vernacular cultural formations; rather, it offers a complementary gesture towards a universal history of modernity. Historicising a debate on modernism in Assamese literary culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this paper grapples with the problematic that ‘vernacular modernism’ as a conceptual category represents.
`In' analytical NoteSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 41, No.3; Sep 2018: p.551-566
Journal SourceSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2018-09 41, 3
Key WordsHistoriography ;  Cosmopolitanism ;  Hybridity ;  Post-Colonial Theory ;  Literary History ;  Colonial Modernity ;  Assamese Literature ;  Vernacular Modernism