Cities of the Mind – Villages of the Mind
- 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 In the past two decades or so, this ruralist paradigm has been effectively superseded by a metropolitan imaginary in which the modern, globalised megacity increasingly functions as representative of India as a whole.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.
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| Author details: | Dirk WiemannORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93951 |
| ISSN: | 1866-8380 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe |
| Subtitle (English): | Imagining Urbanity in Contemporary India |
| Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe (109) |
| Publication type: | Postprint |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2016/08/02 |
| Publication year: | 2013 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2016/08/02 |
| Issue: | 109 |
| Number of pages: | 14 |
| Source: | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 61 (2013), 1, S. 59–72 DOI 10.1515/zaa.2013.61.1.59 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
| DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 82 Englische, altenglische Literaturen / 820 Englische, altenglische Literaturen |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
| External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |
