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100	0		_aAkshaya Kumar.
245	1	0	_aPoetry, politics, and culture : essays on Indian texts and contexts / _cAkshaya Kumar.
260			_aNew Delhi : _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2009.
300			_ax, 400 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [368]-388) and index.
505			_aNegotiating 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.
650		0	_aIndic poetry _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aIndic poetry (English) _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPolitics in literature.
650		0	_aCulture in literature.
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