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E-raamat: Literary Theory and Criticism: Recent Writings from South Asia [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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  • Formaat: 256 pages, 22 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge India
  • ISBN-13: 9781003213857
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  • Formaat: 256 pages, 22 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge India
  • ISBN-13: 9781003213857
"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. The volume examines concepts and methods of critical studies. It also discusses colonial and postcolonial discourses on art, religion, nationalism, identity, representation, resistance, and gender in the South Asian context. The essays are accompanied by textual questions and intertextual discussions on rhetorical, creative, and critical aspects of the selected texts. The exercise questions invite the reader to explore the mechanics of reading about and writing on discursive pieces in South Asian studies. Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this textbook will be indispensable for students and researchers of South Asian studies, cultural theory, literary criticism, postcolonial studies, literary and language studies, women and gender studies, rhetoric and composition, political sociology, and cultural studies"--

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.



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. The volume examines concepts and methods of critical studies. It also discusses colonial and postcolonial discourses on art, religion, nationalism, identity, representation, resistance, and gender in the South Asian context. The essays are accompanied by textual questions and intertextual discussions on rhetorical, creative, and critical aspects of the selected texts. The exercise questions invite the reader to explore the mechanics of reading about and writing on discursive pieces in South Asian studies.

Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this textbook will be indispensable for students and researchers of South Asian studies, cultural theory, literary criticism, postcolonial studies, literary and language studies, women and gender studies, rhetoric and composition, political sociology, and cultural studies.

List of contributors
ix
Foreword xi
Preface xiv
Acknowledgements xviii
Introduction: Theory, criticism, and engaging with the texts 1(32)
PART I Theory
33(136)
1 DissemiNation: Time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation
35(34)
Homi Bhabha
2 Belatedness as possibility: Subaltern histories, once again
69(16)
Dipesh Chakrabarty
3 The Blurring of Distinctions: The Artwork and the Religious Icon in Contemporary India
85(30)
Tapati Guha-Thakurta
4 Women and freedom
115(16)
Firdous Azim
5 Hyphenated post-colonial: A divergent perspective
131(19)
Tariq-Amin Khan
6 Grassroots texts: Ethnographic ruptures and transnational feminist imaginaries
150(19)
Piya Chatterjee
PART II Criticism
169
7 Of Mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse
171(11)
Homi Bhabha
8 Epilogue: The tantra of contemplative cultural critique
182(7)
Lata Mani
9 Post-colonial hybridity: Midnight's children
189(14)
Harish Trivedi
10 Fragmenting nations and lives: Sunlight on a broken column
203(20)
Vrinda Nabar
11 Punyakante Wijenaike: Spectral spaces
223(20)
Minoli Salgado
12 Chokher Bali: The novel of the new age
243
Radha Chakraborty
Arun Gupto is Professor of English at the Institute of Advanced Communication, Education, and Research, Pokhara University, Nepal. He is a former faculty member at the Central Department of English, Tribhuwan University. His areas of research are literary theory, postcolonial studies, and South Asian Studies. His recent books include Goddesses of Kathmandu Valley: Grace, Rage, Knowledge (Routledge, 2016). He has also written and directed a series of documentaries on South Asian Art and Culture titled Art of the Lake (2014), Four Gray Walls Four Gray Towers (post-production), and Anger and the Mahatma (post-production).