"What was so nayi about the Nayi Kahani?" a talk by Dr. Preetha Mani at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 11th June 2013
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘What was so nayi about the Nayi Kahani?’ by Dr. Preetha Mani, Rutgers University, USA.
Abstract : The 1950-60s Nayī Kahānī, or New Story movement is widely understood to have inaugurated a new moment in the trajectory of Hindi literary production. Its writers self-consciously sought to break with the colonial past by experimenting with new uses of language and genre, thereby linking the short story to the changing circumstances of the new Indian nation. But the short story had already been a well established, widely circulating genre for at least thirty years. What, then, made the short story especially befitting of the post-independence present? In other words, what was so nayī about the Nayī Kahānī? This talk addresses these questions through an exploration of three specific literary devices used by the Nayī Kahānī writers– a new realism, a new humanism, and a New Woman. I argue, however, that it is not the newness of these devices per se that made them particularly suited to the post-independence present, but rather the way they put pre-independence Hindi literary traditions to new use. It was its unique reconfiguration of past and present that enabled the Nayī Kahānī to successfully speak to regional, national, and even international audiences simultaneously, something the Hindi short story tradition had never before achieved. Understanding the newness of the Nayī Kahānī thus illuminates how this genre actively imagined post-independence humanism within and beyond the Hindi literary sphere, while also suggesting that the short story may be viewed as a “major” genre in the Indian context in relation to the novel.
Speaker : Dr. Preetha Mani is Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on modern Hindi and Tamil literature with a focus on the short story genre and representations of gender. She completed her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘What was so nayi about the Nayi Kahani?’ by Dr. Preetha Mani, Rutgers University, USA.
Abstract : The 1950-60s Nayī Kahānī, or New Story movement is widely understood to have inaugurated a new moment in the trajectory of Hindi literary production. Its writers self-consciously sought to break with the colonial past by experimenting with new uses of language and genre, thereby linking the short story to the changing circumstances of the new Indian nation. But the short story had already been a well established, widely circulating genre for at least thirty years. What, then, made the short story especially befitting of the post-independence present? In other words, what was so nayī about the Nayī Kahānī? This talk addresses these questions through an exploration of three specific literary devices used by the Nayī Kahānī writers– a new realism, a new humanism, and a New Woman. I argue, however, that it is not the newness of these devices per se that made them particularly suited to the post-independence present, but rather the way they put pre-independence Hindi literary traditions to new use. It was its unique reconfiguration of past and present that enabled the Nayī Kahānī to successfully speak to regional, national, and even international audiences simultaneously, something the Hindi short story tradition had never before achieved. Understanding the newness of the Nayī Kahānī thus illuminates how this genre actively imagined post-independence humanism within and beyond the Hindi literary sphere, while also suggesting that the short story may be viewed as a “major” genre in the Indian context in relation to the novel.
Speaker : Dr. Preetha Mani is Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on modern Hindi and Tamil literature with a focus on the short story genre and representations of gender. She completed her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012.
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"What was so nayi about the Nayi Kahani?" a talk by Dr. Preetha Mani at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 11th June 2013
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