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Author Mallot, J. Edward

Title Memory, nationalism, and narrative in contemporary South Asia / J. Edward Mallot
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages) : illustrations
Contents Part I: The Limits of Memory -- The City Beautiful: Remembering and Dismembering Chandigarh -- I Didn't Kill Gandhi: Memory and the Bollywood Assassin -- A. Sivanandan, Romesh Gunesekera and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Histories -- Part II: The Texts of Memory -- Salman Rushdie's Alternative Historiographies -- Body Politics and the Body Politic: Memory as Human Inscription in Anil's Ghost and What the Body Remembers -- 'A Land Outside Space, An Expanse Without Distances': Amitav Ghosh, Kamila Shamsie and the Maps of Memory
Summary Spanning multiple sites of cultural production in South Asia, this book investigates the deeply ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Kamila Shamsie and Amitav Ghosh create unusual ways to indict nationalism's sinsby accessing and encoding the past and in so doing, he expands memory studies in new, provocative directions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject South Asian literature (English) -- History and criticism
Collective memory and literature -- South Asia
Nationalism -- South Asia
Literary studies: general -- Asia.
Nationalism -- Asia.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Collective memory and literature
Nationalism
South Asian literature (English)
South Asia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137007063
1137007060
9781349435234
1349435236