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1 online resource (xlvii, 136 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-132) and index. |
| Contents |
Modernity, nation and community-a point of departure -- Orientalism, nationalism and the politics of narration -- Regional subalternity -- Intersubjective narration -- Practices of community and the alternate nation. |
| Summary |
The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of a 'national' school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. It categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed as part of what has been called the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th-20th centuries, was not merely a normalization of nationalist or orientalist principles, but was a hermeneutic negotiation between modernity and community, geared toward the fashioning of an alternate nation, resistant to the stereotyping identity f. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tagore, Abanindranath, 1871-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Tagore, Abanindranath, 1871-1951. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Tagore, Abanindranath, 1871-1951. |
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Nationalism and art -- India.
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Nationalism and art. |
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India. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Banerji, Debashish. Alternate nation of Abanindranath Tagore. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2010 9788132102397 (DLC) 2009035224 (OCoLC)435711133 |
| ISBN |
9788132104858 (electronic book) |
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8132104854 (electronic book) |
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8132102398 (hard back) |
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9788132102397 (hard back) |
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9788132112808 (ebook) |
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8132112806 (ebook) |
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9788132102397 (hard back) |
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