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Voices Shaping Perception: On the Emergence of Modern Indian Poetry in English
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Christoph Reinfandt
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March 15, 2014
Abstract
This paper presents three close readings of Indian poems in English that were written around 1870 by members of the eminent Dutt dynasty of writers in Calcutta. The readings of Govin Chunder Dutt’s “Vizagapatam,” Greece Chunder Dutt’s “The Soonderbuns” and Toru Dutt’s “Sonnet - Baugmaree” centre around the question how the poets’ perception of Indian reality was affected by the English conventions of poetic diction and poetic voice available at the time. By way of conclusion, the three poems are then assessed with regard to their creative strategies for encountering the Other of the English poetic tradition in the light of the categories mimicry, hybridity and identity
Online erschienen: 2014-03-15
Erschienen im Druck: 2013-01
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
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- Voice and Perception in Transcultural Realities: The Case of India
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