{"product_id":"indias-forests-real-and-imagined-alan-johnson-9781350353923","title":"India's Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation","description":"As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. \u003ci\u003eIndia's Forests, Real and Imagined\u003c\/i\u003e explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - widely regarded as the first Indian novelist - to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350353922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350353923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d","brand":"Alan Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46173091889407,"sku":"9781350353923","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44d12ed8-741e-4b17-b6de-42391124f178.jpg?v=1727179965","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/indias-forests-real-and-imagined-alan-johnson-9781350353923","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}