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
Main Author: Kumar, Priya
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
South Asian literature
Secularism in motion pictures
Secularism in literature
Motion pictures > Moral and ethical aspects
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Indic.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
Cinema > Aspect moral > Inde.
Litterature sud-asiatique > Aspect moral.
Litterature sud-asiatique > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Secularism in motion pictures.
Secularism in literature.
Motion pictures > Moral and ethical aspects > India.
South Asian literature > Moral and ethical aspects.
South Asian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
India
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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