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Tuners of souls
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Tuners of souls
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music gurus and rebel disciples in 20th century Indian English literature
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ETD_2609
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000053346
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eng
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theses
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Literatures in English
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English literature--Indian authors--21st century--History and criticism
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English literature--Indian authors--20th century--History and criticism
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English literature--Indian authors--Themes, motives
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Music in literature
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This dissertation examines 20th and some very early 21st century Indian English writing that thematizes music and musicians. I argue that Indian English authors who engage with the question of music write in response to the phenomenon of guru worship both in India and abroad. The many works that turn to music in a bid to depict, defend, or as in some cases, turn away from Indian musical culture, present a complex range of reactions to guru worship and its consequences. Within these works, while the auto/biographical writing often tends to replicate older patterns and postures as part of the process of postcolonial cultural self-fashioning, the fiction attempts to break away from the rule of the guru to gesture towards more contemporary possibilities. My secondary argument relates to the much-debated question of whether or not Indian English fiction is relevant to the Indian reality. In this connection, I shall show how the deployment of themes and motifs from Indian music allows authors like Shashi Deshpande and Kiran Nagarkar to make meaningful contributions to current Indian discussions on religion, politics, gender, and class. Chapter 1 analyzes E.M.Forster's Indian works, Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, and the lectures of the vina maestro and Sufi teacher Inayat Khan, mapping the intersection of notions about Indian spiritual and musical gurus on the early 20th century international stage. In Chapter 2 I read a selection of musical novels and fictionalized autobiographies in an attempt to understand the crucial roles of the raga music guru and of musical autobiography in the process of postcolonial self-fashioning. Chapter 3 deals with Indian authors' handling of western musical forms, specifically pop-rock by Salman Rushdie and art music by Vikram Seth. My emphasis is on the unique methods by which each author seeks to virtualize the role of the maestro/guru. Finally, my focus moves in Chapter 4 to bhakti or devotional music, its relation to Gandhian thought, and its use by Kiran Nagarkar in a project that attempts to outline a progressive version of Gandhism for 21st century India.
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viii, 315 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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by Sonali Barua
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2010
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Open
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 30th, 2015.
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