Whose culture is it? Contesting the modern
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Journal of Arts and Ideas
Publication Date
12-1-1993
Issue
25/26
First Page
139
Last Page
151
Publisher
Tulika Print Communication Services
Abstract
The activity of judging or evaluating has been a foundational impulse of literary criticism as it has taken shape as an academic discipline. Focussing on the literary debates in Karnataka, this paper argues that the evolution of the criticism of literature in the last hundred years is tied to the emergence in Karnataka of the 'modem' (used here as a shorthand for global processes such as industrialization, the expansion of colonialism, the creation of democracy, of post-colonial nationstates, the growth of mass communication, the rise of mass social movements; and also for the many fine-grained processes of the transformation of everyday life, such as, for instance, the creation of new subjectivities). To trace the historical complexity of literary evaluation' as a conceptual formation, then, is to sketch one possible genealogy of the constitution of Kannada modernity itself.
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09705309
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Additional Information
This article also published in S. Marathe, et.al. (Eds.) (1994), A way of leaving so as to stay: Papers in honour of S. Viswanathan (pp. 127-152). Madras: T.R. Publications.
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Niranjana, T. (1993). Whose culture is it? Contesting the modern. Journal of Arts and Ideas, (25/26), 139-151.