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  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing

    Edited by Manju Jaidka, Tej N. Dhar, Natasha Vashisht ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    The Handbook of Diasporic Indian Writing in English is an essential reference to Indian literature. It features alphabetical entries of Indian writers who have bridged the gap between cultures and redefined language boundaries. As the field of diasporic writing continues to expand and intersect with various branches of English and Cultural studies, it anticipates a growing market. It offers a ... Read more

    $384.29 CAD

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  • The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Postcolonial Perspective

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    by B.K. Sharma ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    The present anthology The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Post-colonial Perspective attempts to bring together reading of Ghoshs selected and most exquisite novels from a refreshingly different viewpoint against the background of Post-colonialism. Amitav Ghosh is unarguably one of the most cosmopolitan of contemporary Indian English writers whose extra ordinary oeuvre of fiction has been a source of ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    by Tabish Khair ...
    Looking back now, I am more than ever aware of the part that [Satyajit] Ray played in shaping the imaginary universe of my childhood and youth. I see this even in such details as my interest in science and science fiction; in ghost stories and the fantastical…When I saw Agantuk [The Stranger], in which the main character is an anthropologist, I began to wonder whether my interest in anthropology ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Book 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • Amitav Ghosh

    by Anshuman A. Mondal ...
    Series series Contemporary World Writers
    Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav Ghosh's work to be available outside India.Encompassing all of Ghosh's fictional and non-fictional writings to date, this book takes a thematic ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture

    Edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Literature of the Indian Diaspora

    Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary

    by Vijay Mishra ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the ‘new’ diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Between Colonialism and Diaspora

    Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World

    by Tony Ballantyne ...
    Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first. Ballantyne considers Sikh communities and experiences in Punjab, the rest of South Asia, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Young Sikhs in a Global World

    Negotiating Traditions, Identities and Authorities

    by Knut A. Jacobsen, Kristina Myrvold ...
    In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Young Sikhs in a Global World presents current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life-styles and considers how they ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures

    Edited by Ulka Anjaria, Anjali Nerlekar ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures refutes the Anglocentrism of much literary criticism of the global South by examining "Indian Literature" as a multilingual, dialogic, and plural space constituted by both continuities and divergences. In forty-three chapters and with a team of scholars who exemplify the method of historically situated and theoretically rigorous literary criticism, ... Read more

    $245.99 CAD

  • New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India

    The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films

    by Anuradha Needham ...
    Series series Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
    Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history.The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting his subtle and critical engagement with a truism of Indian nationalism: women’s centrality to the (nation ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Nationalism in India

    Texts and Contexts

    Edited by Debajyoti Biswas, John Charles Ryan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism.The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to literary and cultural texts, historic-linguistic contexts and new developments in queer nationalism and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD