Literary Theory and Criticism: Recent Writings from South Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367348328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str.

Arun Gupto

Opis

The book explores key South Asian writings on cultural theory and literary criticism. It discusses the dynamics of textual contents, rhetorical styles, and socio-political issues through an exploration of seminal South Asian scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Spis treści

Part I: Theory 1. DissemiNation: time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation 2. Belatedness as Possibility: Subaltern Histories, once again 3. The Blurring of Distinctions: The artwork and religious icons in contemporary India 4. Woman and Freedom 5. Theoretical Understanding of Post-Colonial State 6. Grassroots Texts: Ethnographic ruptures and transnational feminist imaginaries Part II. Criticism 7. Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse 8. Epilogue: The Tantra of Contemplative Cultural Critique 9. Postcolonial Hybridity: Midnight’s Children 10. Fragmenting Nations and Lives: Sunlight on a Broken Column 11. Puyakante Wijenaike: Spectral Spaces 12. Chokher Bali; The Novel of the New Age