Literature from the peripheries : refrigerated culture and pluralism / edited by Anjum Khan and Shubhanku Kochar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khan, M. Anjum, editor.

Kochar, Shubhanku, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 209 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023]

Contents:

Introduction / Anjum Khan and Shubhanku Kochar

Colonial encounters and cultural genocide: a postcolonial textualisation of Ferdinand Leopold Oyono's The old man and the medal / Zuhmboshi Eric Nsuh

The Anglo Indian community and its cultural aporia: reading the works of Allan Sealy's The trotter-nama: a chronicle / Medha Bhadra Chowdhury

The traces of dystopian in post independent Manipuri poetry / Neelima B and Saji Mathew

Cultural refrigeration through cinema in the age of globalization: from Hollywood to Nollywood / Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah

Subaltern cosmopolitanism- the 'Parankis' of postcolonial Kochi / Anupama Nayar

Unseen, unheard and unacknowledged: an eco-cultural reading of Benyamin's Goat days in the age of the anthropocene / Risha Baruah

The idea of minor literature by Deleuze and Guattari with reference to Naga identity, psyche and victimization of Indigenous communities in Temsula Ao's These hills called home: stories from a war zone / Sindhura Dutta and Asijit Datta

The influence of West Indian cultural values on collective and individual identities in Brown girl, brownstones and Praisesong for the widow / Renée Latchman

Mainstreaming the marginal: cultural extermination and tribal resistance in Ranendra's Lords of the global village (2017) / Asis De

Passing and Caribbean identity in America in No telephone to heaven by Michelle Cliff / Denise M. Jarrett

'American dream versus nightmare': migration, minority culture and magic in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The mistress of spices / Munira Salim

Colouring culture, cosmopolitanizing identity: shades of 'otherness' in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / Maitrayee Misra

Passing: trauma and technique: an inquisitive reading of Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing / Prachi Behrani and Vinaya Kumari.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 02, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Literature from the peripheries

ISBN:

9781666927542

1666927546

Publisher Number:

40031626317

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.