The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method by Preetha Mani (review).
The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method examines the development of Indian literature through a comparative study of Hindi and Tamil short stories from the 1930s to the 1960s, focusing on how writers used the genre to challenge vernacular limitations and engage with mode...
| Publicado en: | Modernism/Modernity Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 189 - 192 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Jan2026
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