The Postcolonial Picturesque: The Poetry of Northeast India
This essay discusses the use of aesthetics in poetry from Northeast India. It detects the aesthetic of the picturesque and demonstrates how the aesthetic serves particular political purposes. Moving from a discussion of the “natural” picturesque where variety and harmony in the landscape suggest ple...
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| Vydáno v: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Médium: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | This essay discusses the use of aesthetics in poetry from Northeast India. It detects the aesthetic of the picturesque and demonstrates how the aesthetic serves particular political purposes. Moving from a discussion of the “natural” picturesque where variety and harmony in the landscape suggest pleasure and beauty, the poetry turns to an aesthetic of suffering where civic- and ruin-picturesques map the transformation and degeneration of lands, the corruption of people and the collapse of harmonious identities. This shift within the aesthetic marks the savage/d picturesque and encodes the politics of the region. |
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