EnglishColloque : Les nationalismes littéraires
2.05 - Who needs literary nationalism ?
Auteur(s) : Francesca Orsini
Rather than presenting the “Indian case” from a Eurocentric perspective as a kind of failure or an impossible aspiration (cf. P. Chatterjee 1986), I would like to explore some of the historical, theoretical and practical ways in which literary nationalism has occurred in India since the 1930s. The need for Indian literature, as opposed to language-based fields, seems to spring either from utopian/ideological impulses at specific historical junctures, from (unsurprisingly) institution building, or from international perspectives--when both publishers and authors need to identify or be identified as “Indian”. This denomination is far from stable, given the diasporic location of many of the authors most readily identified as Indian in the international publishing market and the open-ended and ad-hoc way in which the category works. This question impinges only rarely on the actual fields of literature in India--to adapt A.K. Ramanujan’s famous dictum, Indian literature is for most people at most times like trousers, singular at the top and plural at the bottom.
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