TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wiemann, Dirk
T1  - Cities of the mind - villages of the mind
T2  - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur
N2  - Deep into the second half of the twentieth century the traditionalist definition of India as a country of villages remained dominant in official political rhetoric as well as cultural production. In the past two decades or so, this ruralist paradigm has been effectively superseded by a metropolitan imaginary in which the modern, globalised megacity increasingly functions as representative of India as a whole. Has the village, then, entirely vanished from the cultural imaginary in contemporary India? Addressing economic practices from upper-class consumerism to working-class family support strategies, this paper attempts to trace how 'the village' resurfaces or survives as a cultural reference point in the midst of the urban.
Y1  - 2013
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35354
SN  - 0044-2305
VL  - 61
IS  - 1
SP  - 59
EP  - 72
PB  - Königshausen & Neumann
CY  - Würzburg
ER  -