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Contemporary Indian writing in English between global fiction and transmodern historiography /
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 argu...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2016]
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| Collection: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Stories, histories, theories
- History between secularism and speculation: in times of siege
- Microcosms of modernity: Sea of poppies
- The personal as global: Shalimar the clown
- The future of the past: The last jet-engine laugh
- Historical imagination beyond memory and ideology: Solo
- Disclosing suppression, narrating neglect: The point of return
- Writing the unspeakable: Fireproof
- Deconstructing colonial epistemologies: The thing about thugs
- Urban Imaginaries of Past and Present: Maximum City
- Songs of faith and devotion: The afusic room
- Conclusion.