Leisurely feelings: emotions and concepts of Otium in South Asia

This book traces a conceptual history of literature, leisure and emotions in modern South Asia. Reading colonial capitalism as entwined with the ‘myth of the lazy native’, it focuses on vernacular literary contestations in Urdu and Bengali. It foregrounds otium, leisure and idleness as entangled wit...

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Main Author: Noor, Farha (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Thesis
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing (HASP) 2024
DOI:10.11588/hasp.1348
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Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1348
Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-hasp-1348-3
Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1348
Langzeitarchivierung Nationalbibliothek, kostenfrei: https://d-nb.info/1350458058/34
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