Space, utopia and Indian decolonization : literary pre-figurations of the postcolony /

The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways. Focusing on the literary field of South Asia between, largely, the 1860s and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Banerjee, Sandeep (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2019.
Colección:Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series
Temas:
South Asian literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Space and time in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Littérature sud-asiatique > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Colonies in literature
Nationalism in literature
Space and time in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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