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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kumar, Priya
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
South Asian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
South Asian literature > Moral and ethical aspects.
Motion pictures > Moral and ethical aspects > India.
Secularism in literature.
Secularism in motion pictures.
Littérature sud-asiatique > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature sud-asiatique > Aspect moral.
Cinéma > Aspect moral > Inde.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Indic.
Motion pictures > Moral and ethical aspects
Secularism in literature
Secularism in motion pictures
South Asian literature
India
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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