| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Series |
Internationale forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; volume 190 |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 190.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Stories, histories, theories -- History between secularism and speculation: in times of siege -- Microcosms of modernity: Sea of poppies -- The personal as global: Shalimar the clown -- The future of the past: The last jet-engine laugh -- Historical imagination beyond memory and ideology: Solo -- Disclosing suppression, narrating neglect: The point of return -- Writing the unspeakable: Fireproof -- Deconstructing colonial epistemologies: The thing about thugs -- Urban Imaginaries of Past and Present: Maximum City -- Songs of faith and devotion: The afusic room -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This study offers a comprehensive overview of Indian writing in English in the 21st century. Through ten exemplary analyses in which canonical authors stand next to less well-known and diasporic ones Christoph Senft provides deep insights into India's complex literary world and develops an argumentative framework in which narrative texts are interpreted as transmodern re-readings of history, historicity and memory. Reconciling different postmodern and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the interpretation and construction of literature and history, Senft substitutes traditional, Eurocentric and universalistic views on past and present by decolonial and pluralistic practices. He thus helps to better understand the entanglements of colonial politics and cultural production, not only on the subcontinent |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2016) |
| Subject |
Indic literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Literature and history -- India -- History -- 21st century
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History in literature.
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Memory in literature.
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Modernism (Literature) -- India
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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History in literature
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Indic literature (English)
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Literature and history
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Memory in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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Englisch
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Geschichte Motiv
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Literatur
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India
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Indien
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016001292 |
| ISBN |
9004277005 |
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9789004277007 |
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