ID | 162463 |
Title Proper | Pluralising the Narrative |
Other Title Information | Reconfiguring ‘Vernacular Modernism’ in Assamese Literary Culture |
Language | ENG |
Author | Borah, 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 Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 41, No.3; Sep 2018: p.551-566 |
Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2018-09 41, 3 |
Key Words | Historiography ; Cosmopolitanism ; Hybridity ; Post-Colonial Theory ; Literary History ; Colonial Modernity ; Assamese Literature ; Vernacular Modernism |