India's Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation

by Alan Johnson

Book Overview

As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350353922
• ISBN13: 9781350353923
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"