Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow: Gender, Genre, and Visuality in the Creati

Description: Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow by Dr Shobna Nijhawan Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This book centers on the literary activities emerging out of the north Indian publishing house Ganga Pustak Mala and its house periodical Sudha, a literary, social, political and illustrated monthly in the first half of the twentieth century. Building on the defining work of Gerard Genette on paratexts as well as on scholarship on text-image relationships, this book charts the emergence and commercialization as well as nationalization of Hindi literaryproduction in the city of Lucknow. Publisher Description Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow centers on the literary activities emerging out of the publishing house Ganga Pustak Mala in colonial Lucknow in the first half of the twentieth century. Closely associated with Ganga Pustak Mala was the Hindi monthly Sudha (lit. nectar, ambrosia), a literary, social, political and illustrated periodical, in which Hindi writings in prose and poetry, including Hindi literary criticism, and other activitiesconcerning the Hindi public sphere, such as language politics, social reforms, matters concerning lifestyle, health, arts and sciences, and the political emancipation of women and men were promoted and developed.Building on the defining work of Gérard Genette on paratexts as well as on scholarship on text-image relationships, this book charts the literary networks established by the publishing houses proprietor and chief editor of Sudha, Dularelal Bhargava, who played a pivotal role in the emergence of Hindi literary production out of Lucknow and in the commercialization and nationalization of Hindi literature in the north Indian Hindi public sphere. Author Biography Shobna Nijhawan completed her MA in classical and modern Indology at the South Asia Institut of Ruprecht-Karls Universität (Heidelberg, Germany) and her PhD in South and Southeast Asian Studies with designated emphasis on women, gender, and sexuality at the University of California (Berkeley, USA). She is associate professor of Hindi at York University (Toronto, Canada). She is the author of Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere: Periodical Literature inColonial North India (OUP, 2012) and editor of Nationalism in the Vernacular: Hindi, Urdu, and the Literature of Indian Freedom (2010). Her research centers on Hindi periodical literature for women, men,and children published in the first half of the twentieth century.Nijhawan has also published in the fields of transnational feminism, feminist movements, and South-South encounters in late colonial India as well as second-language acquisition and heritage-language and culture learning of Hindi-Urdu. Details ISBN 0199488398 ISBN-13 9780199488391 Title Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow Author Dr Shobna Nijhawan Format Hardcover Year 2018 Pages 288 Publisher OUP India GE_Item_ID:134693859; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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