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Limiting secularism : the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film /

With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumars Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequence...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kumar, Priya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: At Home with the Stranger; 1 Rethinking Secularism; 2 For God's Sake, Open the Universe a Little More: Cosmopolitan Fictions; 3 Acts of Return: Literature and Post-Partition Memory; 4 Fictions of Violence: Witnessing and Survival in Partition Literature; 5 It's My Home, Too: Minoritarian Claims on the Nation; Postscript; Notes; Index.