Mukim, Mantra (2022) Madhavrao Sapre at the Advent of Writing : reading the “first” Hindi Short Story. Interventions . pp. 1-18. doi:10.1080/1369801X.2022.2099941 ISSN 1369-801X.

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Abstract

By placing itself strategically within the debates surrounding the first Hindi short story, its authenticity and its colonial context, this essay wants to understand the repercussions that any claim of “first-ness” has for literature in general and Hindi literary historiography in particular. The underlying assumption is that in claiming something as a “first”, one inaugurates a tension – an event – in history. Latent in such a claim is the suggestion that the event, the first short story in this case, actually inaugurates a kind of prose writing that is absolutely new and singular without any historical antecedents. Instead of making any historically definitive claims of its own, or vouching for one of the many contending Hindi short stories, this essay traces the gestures of historiography that circumscribe Madhavrao Sapre’s short story Ek Tokri Bhar Mitti, and announce its originality. The essay’s focus on the Hindi prose, especially short story, would be guided by the historiography of the form, the choice of narrative technique, thematic models, the register of Hindi used in the stories, and quite significantly, the place and motive of publication. Also relevant to the essay, as both a backdrop and a conceptual optic, is Derrida’s theorization of generic events – events that mark the beginning of a specific genre of writing and of the laws that give the genre its proper name. The proper name attributed to Sapre’s work, to the advent it marks, is kahaani or short story and, with Derrida, this essay will question the possibilities of both the advent and its attendant proper name.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PK Indo-Iranian
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Hindi literature -- History and criticism, Hindi language -- History, Short stories, Hindi, Sapre, Madhavrao,1871-1926, Indic literature -- History and criticism
Journal or Publication Title:	Interventions
ISSN:	1369-801X
Official Date:	22 July 2022
Dates:	Date Event 22 July 2022 Published
Page Range:	pp. 1-18
DOI:	10.1080/1369801X.2022.2099941
Date of first compliant deposit:	5 August 2022
Date of first compliant Open Access:	5 August 2022

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