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Riddles of Belonging
Fordham University Press 2009; US$ 74.99Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at what traditions often keep hidden-whether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought sex change. Herself a skilled translator, Merrill uses these examples to... more...
Modernism and Post Modernism
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,... more...
Flesh and Fish Blood
University of California Press 2012; US$ 39.95In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of the first extended explorations of representations... more...
Literary Radicalism in India
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Literary Radicalism in India 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. In so doing, it redresses a visible historical gap in studies of postcolonial India. Through readings of major fiction,... more...
Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India
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...
Alternative Indias
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... more...
English Heart, Hindi Heartland
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,... more...
Limiting Secularism
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"... more...
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