India has often been at the centre of debates on and definitions of the postcolonial condition. Offering a challenging new direction for the field, this Critical Reader confronts how theory in the Indian context is responding in vital terms to our understanding of that condition today. The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader is made up of four sections looking in turn at:visual culturestranslating cultural traditionsthe ethical textglobal/cosmopolitan worlds.Each section is prefaced with a short introduction by the editors that locate these interdisciplinary articles within the contemporary national and international context. Showcasing the diversity and vitality of current debate, this volume collects the work of both established figures and a new generation of cultural critics. Challenging and unsettling many basic premises of postcolonial studies, this volume is the ideal Reader for students and scholars of the Indian Postcolonial.
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A collection that offers an investigation of the work produced with regard to a particular political and national location of postcoloniality. Focusing on the presentation of postcolonial theory within an Indian context, it includes sections on visual cultures, translating cultural traditions, the ethical text, and global/cosmopolitan worlds.
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Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri Part 1 - Visual Cultures Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 1. Partha Chatterjee. ‘Nationalist Icon to Secular Image’ 2. Tapati Guha Thakurta. ‘Religious Icon and Art: The Case of M.F. Hussain' 3. Robert Young, ‘Sanjayit Ray’ 4. M. Madhava Prasad, ‘Fan Bhakti and Subaltern Sovereignty: Enthusiasm as a Political Factor’ Part 2 - Translating Cultural Traditions Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 5. Aamir Mufti, ‘Auerbach in Istanbul’ 6. Vinayak Chaturvedi, ‘Vinayak and Me’ 7. Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘Belatedness as Possibility: Subaltern Histories, once again’ 8. Aniket Jaiware, ‘Of Demons and Angels' Part 3 - The Ethical Text Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 9. Gayatri Spivak, ‘Ethics and Politics in Tagore and Coetzee’ 10. Udaya Kumar, ‘Self, Body and Inner Sense’. Studies in History' 11. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, ‘Gandhian Ethics’ 12. Ashis Nandy, ‘Humiliation: The Politics and Cultural Psychology of the Limits of Human Degradation’ Part 4 - Global/cosmopolitan worlds Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 13. Amit Chaudhuri, ‘The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism’ 14. Santanu Das, ‘India, Empire, and First World War writing’ 15. Nivedita Menon, ‘Thinking through the Postnation’ 16. Ranajit Guha, ‘A Colonial City and its Times’
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415467476
Publisert
2010-09-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
680 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
384

Biographical note

Elleke Boehmer, Rosinka Chaudhuri