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 In the past two decades or so, this ruralist paradigm has been effectively superseded by a metropolitan imaginary in which the modern, globalised megacity increasingly functions as representative of India as a whole.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.
| Author details: | Dirk WiemannORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2013.61.1.59 |
| ISSN: | 0044-2305 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur |
| Subtitle (English): | imagining urbanity in Contemporary India |
| Publisher: | Königshausen & Neumann |
| Place of publishing: | Würzburg |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2013 |
| Publication year: | 2013 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Volume: | 61 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Number of pages: | 14 |
| First page: | 59 |
| Last Page: | 72 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Romanistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; 109 |
