Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi NovelBetween Love and Freedom interprets the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in representative Bengali novels, as well as in the contending moralities of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh on the idea of violence. It reveals how conventional social realism and emergent modernist modes were brought together in the novelistic tradition by extending the political ideal of anti-colonial revolution into domains of sexual desire and subjective expression, especially in the works of Agyeya, Jainendra, and Yashpal. This work will deeply interest scholars and students of literature, modern Indian history, Hindi, and political science. |
Contents
Introspection and Extrospection | 1 |
The Construction of the Moral Revolutionary | 28 |
Competing Moralities Regarding the Question of Revolutionary Sacrifice | 54 |
The Political Revolutionary in the Social Filial and Affective Spheres | 82 |
Enmeshments of Revolutionary Subjectivity | 109 |
Revolutionaries Social Relations and the Reconsolidation of the Realist Narrative | 134 |
The Hindi Novel as Political Romance | 158 |
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About the Author | 174 |
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Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel Nikhil Govind No preview available - 2014 |
Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel Nikhil Govind No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
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