Adivasi Poetry
The Poetics of Indigeneity in Contemporary India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23620121 |
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| Authors | Joya John (Krea University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 457-472 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197647912.013.18 |
| OpenAlex | W4387871933 |
| ISBN | 9780197647912 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
What does “Adivasi literature” signify in a literary field marked by the erasure of Adivasi languages and the dominance of languages like Hindi? As Adivasi writers take to writing in the vernacular, why is poetry a prominent genre in which they express themselves? How is a distinct claim to orality produced within writing and the print medium? This chapter seeks to answer these questions by situating Adivasi poets in a multilingual literary field in which they employ an “ethnopoetic modality.” This modality includes lexical borrowings, modes of lyric address, various linguistic strategies such as indexicality, and a politics of nature whereby different poetic languages are combined to produce a distinct poetics of indigeneity.
Art · Hindi · Indexicality · Linguistics · Literacy · Literature · Orality · Poetics · Poetry · Sociology · Vernacular · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Highly cited | No |
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