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Space, utopia and Indian decolonization : literary pre-figurations of the postcolony / Sandeep Banerjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banerjee, Sandeep, author.
- Series:
- Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asian literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Space and time in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- South Asian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Sandeep Banerjee is Assistant Professor of English at McGill University. His research focuses on Anglophone, Bengali, and Hindi literature from colonial and postcolonial South Asia; Bengali and Hindi film; andliterary and social theory. His articles have been published (or are forthcoming) in Modern Asian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Mediations, and New Global Studies in addition to several anthologies. A recipient of grants from the Fonds de recherche du Quâebec-Sociâetâe et culture (FRQSC) and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Germany, he is currently researching the ecocritical imagination of the colonial Himalaya.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the use of Bengali, Hindi, and Sanskrit; List of figures; Introduction: spatial desire in the age of empire; 1 Of good and evil: the anxiety of utopianism; 2 Tales of a city: writing colonial Calcutta; 3 That magnificent song: between the performative and the pedagogic; 4 A sense of place: narrating knowable communities; Epilogue: that im/possible spatial desire called decolonization; Appendix: Jana Gana Mana by Rabindranath Tagore; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Banerjee, Sandeep. Space, utopia and Indian decolonization.
- ISBN:
- 9780429401626
- 0429401620
- 9780429686399
- 0429686390
- 9780429686405
- 0429686404
- 9780429686382
- 0429686382
- Publisher Number:
- 99980538810
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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