Fashioning readers
Canon, criticism and pedagogy in the emergence of modern Oriya literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9285772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pritipuspa Mishra (0000-0001-5807-844X, University of Southampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 135-148 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary South Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-4935 • E-ISSN: 1469-364X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09584935.2011.646080 |
| OpenAlex | W2064183584 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
Through a brief history of a widely published canon debate in nineteenth century Orissa, this article describes how anxieties about the quality of ‘traditional’ Oriya literature served as a site for imagining a cohesive Oriya public who would become the consumers and beneficiaries of a new, modernized Oriya-language canon. A public controversy about the status of Oriya literature was initiated in the 1890s with the publication of a serialized critique of the works of Upendra Bhanja, a very popular pre-colonial Oriya poet. The critic argued that Bhanja’s writing was not true poetry, that it did not speak to the contemporary era, and that it featured embarrassingly detailed discussions of obscene material. By unpacking the terms of this criticism and Oriya responses to it, I reveal how at the heart of these discussions were concerns about community building that presupposed a new kind of readership of literature in the Oriya language. Ultimately, this article offers a longer, regional history to the emerging concern of post-colonial scholarship with relationships between publication histories, readerships, and broader ideas of community – local, Indian, and global
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Audience measurement · Canon · Colonialism · Criticism · Literature · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |