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Literary Radicalism in Indiaby Gopal Priyamvada
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 120.00This book situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association. more...
Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of Indiaby Nalini Natarajan
Greenwood Publishing Group 1996; US$ 132.00India has a rich literary assemblage, produced by its different regional traditions, religious faiths, ethnic subcultures and linguistic groups. Published literature of the 20th-century is the focus of this book as it represents the provocative conjuncture of the transitions of Indian modernity. more...
Limiting Secularismby Priya Kumar
University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 72.00With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumars Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of Indian" from "Pakistani" and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation.Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more ethical cohabitation can replace the "arrogant compulsive tolerance" of the state and the majority. Informed by Jacques Derridas recent work on hospitality... more...
Alternative Indiasby Peter Morey; Alex Tickell
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 77.00The debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Indian writing in English has fostered a long tradition of political dissent, and has repeatedly questioned ethnocentric, culturally exclusive forms of political identification, few critics have considered how this literature engages directly with communalism, or charted the literary-political response... more...
Modernism and Post Modernismby Bhasker A. Shukla
Sunrise Publishers and Distributors 2008; US$ 30.00This book explains the concepts of modernism and postmodernism, and examines their impact on contemporary art, architecture, Philosophy and literature. Further dealing with Structuralism and post-structuralism, it presents a detailed account of lives and works of major theorists, including Jacques Derrida, Jacques-Marie-Emile Lacan, Jean Baudrilland, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard and Simone de Beauvoir. It also deals with the various aspects of the Queer Theory. more...
English Heart, Hindi Heartlandby Rashmi Sadana
University of California Press 2012; US$ 49.95English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi?s postcolonial literary world?its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods?in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of debates within India about the politics of language and alongside other writers, including K. Satchidanandan, Shashi Deshpande, and Geetanjali Shree. Sadana undertakes an ethnographic study of literary culture that probes the connections between place, language, and text in order to show what language comes to stand for in people?s lives. In so doing,... more...
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