Reading India now : (Record no. 53779)
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| fixed length control field | 01666nam a2200169 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 191018b2019 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789352876457 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 891.4007 ANJ-U |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Anjaria, Ulka |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Reading India now : |
| Remainder of title | contemporary formations in literature and popular culture / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Ulka Anjaria |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | India |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Orient BlackSwain |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 264 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Reading India now is an effort to outline what literary criticism might look like when it becomes attuned to the everyday lives that people live in India outside the shadow of history. Do the routines of a place simply constitute the backdrop against which important historical events play out, or might they also be important on their own terms? Why is the unspectacular, everyday present so often overlooked as a significant realm of experience for the study of India? Is this an issue particular to places like India? This book foregrounds a time that is everywhere but virtually invisible—a time that is the Indian contemporary. Reading for the contemporary begins by recognising the political and cultural contradictions of contemporary India: increasing communalization, wealth inequality, and consumerism but also new alternative cultures, queer spaces, publishing venues, readership, and future imaginaries. These contradictions are productive of the present. The contemporary offers us new and at times problematic formations; it is where the high and low meet, where conventional generic and formal categories break down, and where the sanctified literary dissolves. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Popular culture |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | India |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Indic literature |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 800 | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | General Stack (For lending) | 18/10/2019 | 891.4007 ANJ-U | 39505 | 13/07/2024 | Books |