Akshaya Kumar. <br/><br/>
Poetry, politics, and culture : essays on Indian texts and contexts / 
Akshaya Kumar. 
 - New Delhi :  New York :  Routledge,  2009. 
 - x, 400 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references  (p. [368]-388) and index. 
<br/><br/>Negotiating nationalism(s): Hindi poetry during and after the colonial period -- De-fetishizing home/homelessness: 'nation' in post-1990s Hindi poetry -- From hyphen to high-fun: towards a topology of new Indian English diaspora poetry -- From nationalist icon to subaltern subject and beyond: latter-day Meeras -- Kissa as the locus of cultural history: Kissa Pooran Bhagat in modern Punjabi literature -- Translating Bhakti: versions of Kabir in the colonial/early nationalist period -- Anxieties of native descent/dissent: Bhakti sub-text of Indian English verse -- Poetry of incarceration: Punjabi prison poetry from Ghadar to emergency and beyond -- From participation to protest: political consciousness of modern Indian English poetry -- From confusion to consolidation: politics of counter-aesthetics in Dalit poetry -- On the frontiers of the public sphere: Indian women's poetry from pre-1947 to post-9/11. 	 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415480055 0415480051 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indic poetry--History and criticism.<br/>Indic poetry (English)--History and criticism.<br/>Politics in literature.<br/>Culture in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.81  / KUM/P