The Freight of Culture
The Mythicization of History in Indian Literary Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rumina Sethi |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-54 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449850701219835 |
| OpenAlex | W1516948125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article addresses the issue of the intersection of Indian and Western traditions in Raja Rao’s short stories. In death, as in life, Rao’s ideological underpinnings remain the centre of controversial attention. His unstinted leanings towards an upper‐caste Indian ethos deeply split his readership into admirers and adversaries. It is imperative to revaluate Rao’s work from the position of Indian aesthetics and a social reality specific to India and dissimilar to Western notions of realism. This paper attempts to explore the issue by focusing specifically on the inception of Raja Rao’s literary production within modal forms in the endeavour to investigate whether his literary lineage derives from Indian or Western forms, or both
Aesthetics · Art · Caste · Ethos · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Raja · Realism · Sociology · Indian History and Philosophy · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |