TY - BOOK AU - Akshaya Kumar. TI - Poetry, politics, and culture : essays on Indian texts and contexts SN - 9780415480055 U1 - 808.81 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi, New York PB - Routledge KW - Indic poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Indic poetry (English) KW - Politics in literature KW - Culture in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-388) and index; 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. ER -