Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Perspectives from India
Redaktion: Chatterjee, Srirupa; Chigurupati, Sharada

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Produktbeschreibung

Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India brings together essays written by academicians and scholars from India to scrutinize how global modernities have been shaped since World War II, from the Indian perspective.

It examines the literary musings of Anglophone writers hailing from various parts of the globe whose diverse voices present compelling narratives on modernity vis-à-vis the human condition. This volume brings together critical essays on writers such as Girish Karnad, Anita Desai, Anita Nair, and Jean Arasanayagam to examine the South Asian experience; by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Naguib Mahfouz to explore the African and Arabic world order; by Jane Harrison and Wesley Enoch to address the Australian aboriginal condition; by William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Sarah Kane to scrutinize British cultural politics; by Jamaica Kincaid and Elizabeth Acevedo to highlight Latin American and Caribbean modernity, and last but not the least, by John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and Mary Gordon to analyze North American politico-religious experiences of modernity. The diverse themes in this book therefore touch upon historical trauma, religious revisioning, masculinity, feminist debates, gender studies, ethnic discrimination and diversity, and caste and class politics, among many others.

The book's varied themes are united by the fact that they all converse with global and transnational dynamics shaped by post-war modernity that define our world today. The book crafts narratives on contemporary global literatures and the modern conditions they represent and does so from the vantage point of postmillennial Indian literary scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040352502
• Artikelnr.: 73653841

Autorenporträt

Srirupa Chatterjee is Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Body Image Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.. Her books include edited volumes titled Female Body Image in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture (2024) and Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women's Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India (2023). Sharada Chigurupati is Professor at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. She has published research articles in national and international journals. She is the lead editor of American Literary Studies in Post Millennial India: Critical Perspectives (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Srirupa Chatterjee; I. Postcolonial Identity Politics:
Modernity and Poetry from South Asia; 1. Nativist Modernity in the Poetry
of Jayanta Mahapatra - Sarada Thallam; 2. Interrogating Identity Politics:
A Reading of Jean Arasanayagam's Select Poems - Sharada Chigurupati; II.
Indian Fiction and Postcolonial Modernity: The Twentieth Century and
Beyond; 3. Girish Karnad's Ecomythological Sphere: A Structuralist Study of
Hayavadana and The Fire and the Rain - Rekha Karim; 4. Anita Desai's
Perspective on the Holocaust in Baumgartner's Bombay - Tiasa Bal and
Gurumurthy Neelakantan; 5.Gendering Energy: Mobility and Feminist
Modernities in Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe - Swaralipi Nandi; 6. Dalit Life
Writing: Local Moorings, Global Contexts - Rohini Mokashi-Punekar and
Himaxee Bordoloi; III. Cultural Modernity and Gender Politics in African
and Arabic Literature; 7. Empowering Humanity through Feminism: Modernity
and Sexual Politics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writings - Aswathi
Velayathikode Anand; 8. Incarcerated Lives, Thwarted Desires: Masculinity,
Modernity, and the War in Midaq Alley - Shailendra Kumar Singh; IV.
Modernity, Assimilatory Politics, and Trauma in Contemporary Australian
Drama; 9. History, Memory, and Storytelling: Performing Trauma and 'Stolen
Generation' Narratives in Jane Harrison's Stolen and Wesley Enoch and
Mailman's The 7 Stages of Grieving - Sibendu Chakraborty; V. Britain,
Political Modernity, and Literary Responses; 10. Utopia vs Dystopia: A
Carnivalesque Study of William Golding's Lord of the Flies - Rama N. H.
Alapati; 11. Negotiating traumatic memories of migration in Kazuo
Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills - Rima Bhattacharya; 12. The Postface of
History and the Posthumous Society: Aesthetic Terrorism and the
Post-ideological Condition in Sarah Kane's Blasted and Cleansed - Arnab
Ray; VI. Cultural Modernity and Voices of Resistance in Caribbean
Literature; 13. From Space to A Small Place: An Ecocritical Study of
Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place - Kotti Sree Ramesh; 14. Subverting
Cultures of Toxic Masculinity: Father Figures and Caribbean Gender Norms in
the Novels of Elizabeth Acevedo - Vinita Vincent; VII. From Postwar
Christianity to Millennial Postsecularism : Spiritual Modernity and North
America; 15. From Controversy to Credibility: Counterculture Modernities in
John Updike's Couples - Srirupa Chatterjee and Swathi Krishna S.;16.
Exploring the Postsecular: The Modern Self, Community and Connectedness in
E. L. Doctorow's City of God and Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men -
Nilanjana Ghosal; 17. Redeeming Cloistered Womanhood: Spiritual Modernity
in Mary Gordon's Pearl and There Your Heart Lies - Srirupa Chatterjee and
Aswathi Velayathikode Anand; Conclusion; Index