Mishra Vijay - Subaltern Narratives In Fiji Hindi Literature - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature is the first comprehensive study of fiction written in Fiji Hindi that moves beyond the hegemonic and colonially - implicated perspectives that have necessarily informed top - down historical accounts. Mishra makes this case using two extraordinary novels auk Pur n A Subaltern Tale (2001 ) and Fiji Maa Mother of a Thousand (2018) by the Fiji Indian writer Subramani. They are massive novels (respectively 500 and 1,000 pages long) written in the devan gar (Sanskrit) script. They are examples of subaltern writing that do not exist as a legitimation of the subaltern voice anywhere else in the world. The novels constitute the silent underside of world literature whose canon they silently challenge. For postcolonial diaspora and subaltern scholars they are defining (indeed definitive) texts without which their theories remain incomplete. Theories require mastery of primary texts and these subaltern novels heroic compositions as they are in the vernacular offer a challenge to the theorist.
Title: Subaltern Narratives In Fiji Hindi Literature
Author(s): Mishra Vijay
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781839990700
Pages: 226 Pages
Publication Date: 2/13/2024
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers