UID:
almahu_9949703717902882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004277007
Series Statement:
Internationale forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 190
Content:
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.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Stories, Histories, Theories -- History between Secularism and Speculation: In Times of Siege (2003) -- Microcosms of Modernity: Sea of Poppies (2008) -- The Personal as Global: Shalimar the Clown (2005) -- The Future of the Past: The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (2001) -- Historical Imagination beyond Memory and Ideology: Solo (2009) -- Disclosing Suppression, Narrating Neglect: The Point of Return (2002) -- Writing the Unspeakable: Fireproof (2006) -- Deconstructing Colonial Epistemologies: The Thing about Thugs (2010) -- Urban Imaginaries of Past and Present: Maximum City (2004) -- Songs of Faith and Devotion: The Music Room (2007) -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Senft, Christoph, 1981- author. Contemporary Indian writing in English between global fiction and transmodern historiography Leiden ; New York : Brill Rodopi, 2016 ISBN 9789004309067
Language:
English
