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" The alternate nation of Abanindranath Tagore / "
Debashish Banerji.
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BL
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1030813
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b785183
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| Main Entry
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Banerji, Debashish.
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The alternate nation of Abanindranath Tagore /\ Debashish Banerji.
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| Publication Statement
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New Delhi ;Thousand Oaks :: SAGE,, 2010.
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1 online resource (xlvii, 136 pages) :: illustrations (chiefly color)
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8132102398
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: 8132104854
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: 9788132104858
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: 9788132112808
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9788132102397
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-132) and index.
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| Contents
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Modernity, nation and community-a point of departure -- Orientalism, nationalism and the politics of narration -- Regional subalternity -- Intersubjective narration -- Practices of community and the alternate nation.
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The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of a 'national' school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. It categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed as part of what has been called the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th-20th centuries, was not merely a normalization of nationalist or orientalist principles, but was a hermeneutic negotiation between modernity and community, geared toward the fashioning of an alternate nation, resistant to the stereotyping identity f.
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Tagore, Abanindranath,1871-1951-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Tagore, Abanindranath,1871-1951
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Nationalism and art-- India.
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ART-- History-- General.
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Nationalism and art.
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India.
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| Dewey Classification
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759.954
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ND1010.T3B36 2010eb
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