| Description |
1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Series |
Media and Cultural Memory= ; Volume 20 Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 1613-8961 |
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Media and cultural memory ; Volume 20
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Rewriting the Past -- Memory, History and the Indo-English Novel of the 1980s and 1990s -- 2. Memory and Transculturality -- 3. Literature and Transcultural Memory -- 4. Novels of Political Memories: Partition and Reconciliation -- 5. Novels of Private Memories: Through the Looking Glass -- 6. Rerouting and Remapping: The Indo-English Novel of Transcultural Memory after 2000 -- 7. Conclusion: 'Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories' -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This study develops a theory of transcultural memory in relation to the recent phenomena of globalised modernity. It aims to address the connection between memory and culture, and memory and modernity in contemporary Indo-English novels to shed new light on memory cultures in the South Asian context |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Collective memory in literature.
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Globalization in literature.
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Indic literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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Collective memory in literature.
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Globalization in literature.
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Indic literature (English)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3110367351 |
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3110387115 |
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9783110367355 |
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9783110387117 |
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