Postcolonial Modernity And The Indian Novel
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Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel
Author | : Sourit Bhattacharya |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-05-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030373979 |
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This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967–72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975–77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian crisis enabling these catastrophic events. Novelists such as Bhabani Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Nabarun Bhattacharya, and Nayantara Sahgal, among others, have captured the relationship between the long-term crisis and the catastrophic aspects of the events through different aesthetic modalities within realism, ranging from analytical-affective, critical realist, quest modes to apparently non-realist ones such as metafictional, urban fantastic, magical realist, and others. These realist modalities are together read here as postcolonial catastrophic realism.
The Crisis of Modernity
Author | : Sourit Bhattacharya |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : OCLC:1028774600 |
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Genres of Modernity
Author | : Dirk Wiemann |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789042024939 |
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"Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to hold together the stimulating impulses of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and the boom of Indian fiction in English." "Combining close readings of literary texts from Salman Rushdie to Kiran Nagarkar with a wide range of philosophical, sociological and historiographic reflections, Genres of Modernity is of interest not only for students of postcolonial literatures but for academics in the fields of Cultural Studies at large."--BOOK JACKET.
Colonialism Modernity and Literature
Author | : S. Mohanty |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780230118348 |
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The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities
Colonialism Modernity and Literature
Author | : S. Mohanty |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780230118348 |
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The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities
Woman and Indian Modernity
Author | : Nalini Natarajan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111768805 |
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Drawing from the large body of criticism on non-European modernities in recent years, this study targets what seems to be a discernable ambivalence in these studies. The author seeks to investigate Twentieth-Century India?s complex negotiations with modernity, with its usefulness as well as its threat, at one of the most vulnerable points of definition, the position of women. Focusing on the disciplines or genres within which modernity is introduced, the study uses the modern literary genre, as well as intellectual disciplines. Using these two domains of study, an interdisciplinary framework is developed by looking at how narratives may be read in the light of other disciplines constructing the modern subject-ideologies of manners and ?refinement?, prohibition, ethnography, ethnopsychology, film, property law and urban history.The book argues that the possibilities in modernity are subject to a constant negotiation and become domesticated through the century, especially in the area of gendering. Gendering is revealed as a historically contingent process operating differently at different historical moments. The analysis enables us to see the ideological gender constructions and contradictions behind modern versions of caste, modern daughterhood, modern citizenhood, and modern proprietorship.
The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
Author | : Geetha Ganapathy-Doré |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2011-01-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781443828185 |
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Indian writers of English such as G. V. Desani, Salman Rushdie, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Allan Sealy, Shashi Tharoor, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Chandra and Jhumpa Lahiri have taken the potentialities of the novel form to new heights. Against the background of the genre’s macro-history, this study attempts to explain the stunning vitality, colourful diversity, and the outstanding but sometimes controversial success of postcolonial Indian novels in the light of ongoing debates in postcolonial studies. It analyses the warp and woof of the novelistic text through a cross-sectional scrutiny of the issues of democracy, the poetics of space, the times of empire, nation and globalization, self-writing in the auto/meta/docu-fictional modes, the musical, pictorial, cinematic and culinary intertextualities that run through this hyperpalimpsestic practice and the politics of gender, caste and language that gives it an inimitable stamp. This concise and readable survey gives us intimations of a truly world literature as imagined by Francophone writers because the postcolonial Indian novel is a concrete illustration of how “language liberated from its exclusive pact with the nation can enter into a dialogue with a vast polyphonic ensemble.”
The Postcolonial Indian City
Author | : Dibyakusum Ray,Taylor & Francis Group |
Publsiher | : Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2022-03-25 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0367763001 |
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