“...kahāniyā͂ ākhir bantῑ kaise hai͂?!” (“…how, after all, do stories originate?!”): The Clash between Indian and Western Literary Traditions in Ajñeya’s Short Stories

The aim of this paper is to prove that Ajñeya (pseudonym of S. H. Vātsyāyan, 1911–1987), a Hindi writer of poetry and prose, formulated some theoretical essentials for kahānī as a literary genre, which influenced its further development in the second half of the 20th century. Examples from his sele...

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Main Author: Teresa Miążek
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/624c1ce0d8b24cd5915efacd37b15eed
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