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When borne across : literary cosmopolitics in the contemporary Indian novel / Bishnupriya Ghosh.
Van Pelt Library PR9492.5 .G47 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ghosh, Bishnupriya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indic fiction (English)--History and criticism.
- Indic fiction (English).
- Politics and literature--India.
- Politics and literature.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- India.
- Cosmopolitanism--India.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- India's 1997 celebration of the Golden Jubilee marked fifty years of independence from British colonial rule. This anniversary is the impetus for Bishnupriya Ghosh's exploration of the English language icons of South Asian postcolonial literature: Salman Rushdie, Vikram Chandra, Amitav Ghosh, Upamanyu Chatterjee, and Arundhati Roy. These authors, grouped together as South Asian cosmopolitical writers, produce work challenging and expanding preconceived notions of Indian cultural identity, while being sold simultaneously as popular English literature within the global market. This commodification of Indian language and identity reinforces incomplete and simplified images of India and its writers, and at times counteracts the expressed agenda of the writers. In this book, Ghosh focuses on the politics of language and history, and the related processes of translation and migration within the global network. In so doing, she develops a new approach to literary studies that adapts conventional literary analysis to the pressures, constraints, and liberties of our present era of globalization.
- Contents:
- 1 Sighting Circulation: A Renaissance at the Golden Jubilee 14
- 2 Passages and Passports: Globalism, Language, Migration 47
- 3 Linguistic Migrations: Experiments in English Vernaculars 80
- 4 The Body of the Other: Narrating Violence, Community, History 121
- 5 Of Ghosts and Grafts: Uncanny Narration in Cosmopolitical Novels 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813533449
- 0813533457
- OCLC:
- 52160116
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