What Is Nativism?

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JYOTIKA MANRAL
MS POOJA NEGI
M.A ENGLISH (SEMESTER-1)
13 NOVEMBER 2014
NATIVISM IN INDIAN LITERARY VALUES

What Arnold Toynbee benignantly says is true: "Western iron has probably entered deep into India’s soul." Indian critical thinking is governed by different western and Brahminical School of thoughts which had made it very obscure and vague. Many writers failed to either completely westernize or traditionalize Indian critical studies into a single panel. However, Bhalchandra Nemade is among those writers who made an attempt to nativise literature by emphasizing on many regional language and culture, making it accessible to major population of India. Bhalchandra Nemade acknowledges two veteran scholars who widespread the works on nativism …show more content…

V.V Badve), objects that Nemade explains that deshivad is a translation of English term Nativism. Nemade is raising the issue that Marathi literature is overly dependent on English and himself is borrowing the term from English. Sarang further objects that Nativism is an anthropological term and it is even not widely used in western literary discourse. So, Nemade is trying to make a huge jump by making Marathi literary criticism swallow an anthropological …show more content…

[…] Shakespeare was not a realist. The stories which Nemade abhors as fantastic and artificially 'formalistic' are in abundance in Shakespeare. Realism is foreign to non-secular indian tradition […] it never existed in indian literary tradition. On the other hand, The Mahabharata is full of the fantastic in number of places.[…] modern sense of surrealism and fantasy […] which means that Nemade completely ignores such things which are, in fact, germane to the Indian tradition and the Indian imagination, ad propagates, on the other hand, the western concept of

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