Modern Indian Utopian Art and Literature: An Introduction

Barnita Bagchi; Sukla Chatterjee

doi:10.16995/olh.8771

Modern Indian Utopian Art and Literature: An Introduction

Barnita Bagchi, Sukla Chatterjee

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Abstract

This is an editorial introduction to the Open Library of Humanities Special Collection on Utopian Art and Literature from Modern India, which has a major focus on literary and filmic imaginings of utopia and dystopia, with the majority of articles examining texts from the period before the Partition and independence of India in 1947. We show how the collection is part of the current scholarly endeavour to recognize the wealth of non-Eurocentric utopian and dystopian texts in literature. The introduction captures key themes such as the rural and the urban, discussed in the collection, and points out the scholarly innovation of paying sustained attention to literature written in bhashas (vernacular Indian languages) in both utopian and dystopian modes, and of analysing the work of classic Modernist writers from 20th-century India, such as Satinath Bhaduri and Tarasankar Bandopadhyay.

Original language	English
Article number	8771
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Open Library of Humanities
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.8771
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Most of the articles in this Special Collection were presented or proposed, in earlier versions, at or for a seminar at the 2017 session of the American Comparative Literature Association, held at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, organized by Bagchi. We thank all the contributors to this Special Collection, and express special gratitude to Sandeep Banerjee (Mcgill University, Canada), Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University, India), Auritro Majumder (University of Houston, USA), and Henry Schwarz (Georgetown University, USA) for their scholarly generosity.

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© 2022 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Keywords

utopia
dystopia
India
global Modernism
bhasha

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