Reading India in a Transnational Era: The Works of Raja Rao

ISBN-13: 9781138550292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 242 str.

Rumina Sethi; Letizia Alterno

Opis

This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao’s writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial and diasporic writing in the 20th Century.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Re-routing Raja Rao’s Politics, National Identity and Postcolonial Criticism 1. The Lure of Monarchy in the Pursuit of Truth: Raja Rao’s Royalism in The Serpent and the Rope 2.  From National to Metaphysical: Raja Rao’s Idea of India in a Transnational Era 3.  Resisting the British Empire: Raja Rao’s Two Political Anthologies Changing India and Whither India? 4. Threads of Identity: Caste, Clothing and Community in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura 5. The Cat and Shakespeare, the Problem of the Ego-Self, and the Vagaries of Literary Reputation Part II: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and the Novel 6. Comrade Kirillov: ‘A New Novel’ Newly Understood 7. Women and the Narrative of Nationalism in Raja Rao’s The Cow of the Barricades 8. Posthumanism in Raja Rao’s The Cat and Shakespeare: Redrawing the Boundaries 9. The Cat and the Chessmaster: Deconstructing ‘Play’ in Two Novels by Raja Rao 10. The Unknown Quantity: Mathematics and Metaphysics in Raja Rao’s The Chessmaster and His Moves Part III: Multicultural Politics, Habitat and Translation 11. ‘I Am Not Gandhi’: Kanthapura and the Problem of Allegory 12. Nature and Landscape: An Evolutionary Psychological Analysis of Raja Rao’s Writing 13. Search in Confusion: Reading Transnational Friendships in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura and Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi 14. On Translating Raja Rao in the Transnational Era Part IV: Reminiscences Raja Rao at his Bed Table. Raja Rao: The Untold Story. Poem (for Raja Rao): Krishna. Afterword.