Farha Noor: Leisurely Feelings, Gebunden

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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 with emotions and
temporalities. The book approaches literary spheres through the lenses of emotions, the self, and the community. Literary discourses of otium are analysed in stylistic
innovations, negotiations of colonial modernity and postcolonial uncertainties. Highlighting key literary-conceptual expressions, discussions, and processes, the
author explores nostalgia, melancholy, topophilia and haunting as emotions deeply
attached to South Asian literary cultures while also resonating with concepts of
otium across global modernity.