PORTRAIT OF A WRITER: VISUAL AND VERBAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE ART AND LITERATURE OF MERCÈ RODOREDA

This article seeks to understand Indian theatre’s take on Dalit politics of our time through a critical reading of two post-independence plays—Datta Bhagat’s Routes and Escape Routes and Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan. Politically, ‘Dalit’ becomes important only after 1947 in post-independence and post-colonial India or more specifically from the 1970s. In the post-Ambedkar phase of Dalit re/configuration, they begin to self-assert through politics, art, and literature, most effectively and convincingly, only with the rise of Dalit Panthers and in the aftermath of the implementation of Mandal Commission’s recommendation for Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation. The article tries to examine the fresh critique of the Dalit vis-à-vis the upper caste-centric society, undertaken in this crucial context of reconfiguration and from beyond any traditional parameter of understanding, and map, through the plays, the plurality hidden within the perceived monolith of Dalit consciousness. Consequently, Dalit experiences against the backdrop of their struggle are laid bare, and unfamiliar realities come out to upset our comfortable knowledge about this large segment of Indian society.

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American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature. David C. Miller

Archives of American Art Journal ◽

10.1086/aaa.33.2.1557667 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 26-29

Author(s):

David C. Ward

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New Approaches ◽

Art And Literature

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Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora. Mehraneh Ebrahimi (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019). Pp. 224. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780815636557

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743821000672 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Ida Yalzadeh

Keyword(s):

Art And Literature ◽

Syracuse University ◽

Iranian Diaspora

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Ästhetisch konstruierte Traditionen?

Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur ◽

10.1515/iasl-2019-0022 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 442-470

Author(s):

Torsten Voß

Keyword(s):

Discursive Practice ◽

German Romanticism ◽

Literary Field ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Art And Literature ◽

European Tradition ◽

Concept Of Beauty

Abstract Throughout various literary and artistic periods, artists have referred to or even converted to Catholicism as a means of conjuring a certain perception of a European tradition. In doing this, they seek to create an aesthetic of romanticism and/or an idea and concept of beauty, the artist, artwork etc. After giving a brief overview of this discursive practice in modern avant-garde movements, this article focuses on early forms of literary Catholic movements, such as the French Renouveau catholique and François-René de Chateaubriand’s Le Génie du Christianisme (The Genius of Christianity), as well as Novalis’ ‘invention’ of German romanticism in his essay Die Christenheit oder Europa (Christianity or Europe). It shows that there are a variety of parallels to be identified across these periods and places, namely, in programs, performances, rhetoric-building and group-building processes, and in cultivating an anti-bourgeois distinction, both in the texts themselves and in the positioning of the artists within the literary field. Despite accusations of being reactionary, writers and artists who elaborate a Catholic concept of art and literature aim to develop a traditionalist and anti-modern stance within (aesthetical and social) modernity.

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