2010, ISBN: 9789380403021

Hardcover

Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2010. Hardcover. New. Literary prizes form a fascinating interface between literature and society. Established in 1968, the Booker Prize… More...

Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2010. Hardcover. New. Literary prizes form a fascinating interface between literature and society. Established in 1968, the Booker Prize has rapidly become one of the most prestigious and glamorous literary prizes in the English speaking world. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Booker focuses on a particular novel rather than on a particular author. It seeks to confer literary recognition on novels that are winners and attend to the novel as a form and medium for new voices, styles and cultures. The Man Booker Prize expresses a postcolonial response and the prominence of India in its brief history is unquestionable. Besides V.S. Naipaul, the Indian Trinidadian, the prize has been awarded to four Indians—Salman Rushdie in 1981, Arundhati Roy in 1997, Kiran Desai in 26 and most recently in 28 to Aravind Adiga. In addition, diasporic Indian authors regularly appear on the shortlist that comes out several months before the prize is actually awarded. Thus, Indian writers have successfully created a niche of their own in English, leaving an indelible mark on the global scene. Rich in scholarship, Indian Booker Prize Winners is a challenging collection of essays, which propels the field of Indian English writing forward and focuses on the emerging role of Indian English fiction in shaping the most significant annual international award in English letters. The book examines the key critical debates which provide a concise analysis of the Booker winning novels from India. A variety of subjects and viewpoints inform the close readings of these seminal novels, thereby making the book particularly useful for the teachers and students of Indian English literature. Contents : Preface; Introduction; 1. A Postcolonial Bestiary: Metaphors of Power in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger–Esterino Adami; 2. Deconstruction in The White Tiger–Jackie Haque; 3. The Inheritance of Loss: A Portrayal of Myriad Shades of Life–Meenakshi Raman; 4. Cyclical Temporality in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses–Erin Warde; 5. National Allegory, Reshaping Memory and Rewriting History: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shame–John Nkemngong Nkengasong and Magdelene Atanga Mafor; 6. Subaltern Voices and Postcolonial Anxiety in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things–Diviani Chaudhuri; 7. From Backward to Forward: Self-upgrading in Contemporary India–Alessandro Monti; 8. The Subaltern as Hero in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger–Anita Myles; 9. Dislocation and Identity in The Inheritance of Loss–Nishi Pulugurtha; 1. Worlds within Words: A Study of Rushdie’s Use of Allusions in the Midnight’s Children–Garima Gupta; 11. Democracy and Dictatorship in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children–Prakash Chandra Pradhan; 12. The Unsafe Edge: Ammu’s Agency in The God of Small Things–Christina Bertrand Firebaugh; 13. The Regional Novel and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger–Arpa Ghosh; 14. The Subaltern Speaks: A Critical Reading of The White Tiger–Vandana Datta; 15. Colliding Scapes of Cultures: A Reading of The Inheritance of Loss–Purnendu Chatterjee; 16. Narrating History, Rethinking Nation: A Re-reading of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children–Arindam Das; 17. Possibilities of the Metaphorical in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children–Reena Mitra; 18. Ecofeminism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, and the Meenachal River as an Encyclopedia of Race, Class and Culture in the Novel–Joyashri Choudhury; 19. ‘Re-Vision’—Creating a New Stream of Novel Writing: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things–Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry; Contributors Printed Pages: 232., Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2010, Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press. Softcover. New. The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues to haunt popular consciousness and memory, and makes its presence felt in South Asian literature and cinema. Its legacy is palpable not only in discourses about the place of religion in India, but also in the historical interpretation of justice and minority belongings, and in the tension-ridden struggle over the production of secular national culture in the subcontinent. In Violent Belongings, Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic violence and related mass migration in and after 1947 through its representation in postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global South Asian literature and culture. In doing so she makes a nuanced study of the relation between culture and violence, and the questions about belonging that trouble nations and nationalisms today. By investigating such texts as Khushwant Singhs Train to Pakistan, Salman Rushdies Shalimar the Clown and Jhumpa Lahiris The Interpreter of Maladies, alongside the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Bollywood cinema and diasporic films like Deepa Mehtas Earth, Daiya illuminates the cultural and political negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public spheres. Working with a multiplicity of texts this valuable new work will be essential reading for students of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, anthropology and gender. Contents Acknowledgements 1. Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition, and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere 2. Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance, and Secular Citizenship 3. A Crisis made Flesh: Women, Honor, and National Coupledom 4. We Were Never Refugees: Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State 5. War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema 6. Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora Conclusion Bibliography Index Printed Pages: 272. NA, Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press<

2007, ISBN: 9789380403021

Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press. Softcover. New. The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues… More...

Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press. Softcover. New. The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues to haunt popular consciousness and memory, and makes its presence felt in South Asian literature and cinema. Its legacy is palpable not only in discourses about the place of religion in India, but also in the historical interpretation of justice and minority belongings, and in the tension-ridden struggle over the production of secular national culture in the subcontinent. In Violent Belongings, Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic violence and related mass migration in and after 1947 through its representation in postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global South Asian literature and culture. In doing so she makes a nuanced study of the relation between culture and violence, and the questions about belonging that trouble nations and nationalisms today. By investigating such texts as Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Interpreter of Maladies, alongside the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Bollywood cinema and diasporic films like Deepa Mehta’s Earth, Daiya illuminates the cultural and political negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public spheres. Working with a multiplicity of texts this valuable new work will be essential reading for students of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, anthropology and gender. Contents Acknowledgements 1. Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition, and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere 2. Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance, and Secular Citizenship 3. “A Crisis made Flesh”: Women, Honor, and National Coupledom 4. “ We Were Never Refugees”: Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State 5. War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema 6. Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora Conclusion Bibliography Index Printed Pages: 272., Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press<

2007, ISBN: 9789380403021

Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press. Softcover. New. The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues… More...

Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press. Softcover. New. The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues to haunt popular consciousness and memory, and makes its presence felt in South Asian literature and cinema. Its legacy is palpable not only in discourses about the place of religion in India, but also in the historical interpretation of justice and minority belongings, and in the tension-ridden struggle over the production of secular national culture in the subcontinent. In Violent Belongings, Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic violence and related mass migration in and after 1947 through its representation in postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global South Asian literature and culture. In doing so she makes a nuanced study of the relation between culture and violence, and the questions about belonging that trouble nations and nationalisms today. By investigating such texts as Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Interpreter of Maladies, alongside the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Bollywood cinema and diasporic films like Deepa Mehta’s Earth, Daiya illuminates the cultural and political negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public spheres. Working with a multiplicity of texts this valuable new work will be essential reading for students of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, anthropology and gender. Contents Acknowledgements 1. Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition, and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere 2. Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance, and Secular Citizenship 3. “A Crisis made Flesh”: Women, Honor, and National Coupledom 4. “ We Were Never Refugees”: Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State 5. War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema 6. Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora Conclusion Bibliography Index Printed Pages: 272., Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press<

2007, ISBN: 9789380403021

Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press. Softcover. New. The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues… More...

Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press. Softcover. New. The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues to haunt popular consciousness and memory, and makes its presence felt in South Asian literature and cinema. Its legacy is palpable not only in discourses about the place of religion in India, but also in the historical interpretation of justice and minority belongings, and in the tension-ridden struggle over the production of secular national culture in the subcontinent. In Violent Belongings, Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic violence and related mass migration in and after 1947 through its representation in postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global South Asian literature and culture. In doing so she makes a nuanced study of the relation between culture and violence, and the questions about belonging that trouble nations and nationalisms today. By investigating such texts as Khushwant Singhs Train to Pakistan, Salman Rushdies Shalimar the Clown and Jhumpa Lahiris The Interpreter of Maladies, alongside the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Bollywood cinema and diasporic films like Deepa Mehtas Earth, Daiya illuminates the cultural and political negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public spheres. Working with a multiplicity of texts this valuable new work will be essential reading for students of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, anthropology and gender. Contents Acknowledgements 1. Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition, and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere 2. Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance, and Secular Citizenship 3. A Crisis made Flesh: Women, Honor, and National Coupledom 4. We Were Never Refugees: Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State 5. War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema 6. Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora Conclusion Bibliography Index Printed Pages: 272. NA, Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press<

2007, ISBN: 9789380403021

Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press. Softcover. New. The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues… More...

Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press. Softcover. New. The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues to haunt popular consciousness and memory, and makes its presence felt in South Asian literature and cinema. Its legacy is palpable not only in discourses about the place of religion in India, but also in the historical interpretation of justice and minority belongings, and in the tension-ridden struggle over the production of secular national culture in the subcontinent. In Violent Belongings, Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic violence and related mass migration in and after 1947 through its representation in postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global South Asian literature and culture. In doing so she makes a nuanced study of the relation between culture and violence, and the questions about belonging that trouble nations and nationalisms today. By investigating such texts as Khushwant Singhs Train to Pakistan, Salman Rushdies Shalimar the Clown and Jhumpa Lahiris The Interpreter of Maladies, alongside the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Bollywood cinema and diasporic films like Deepa Mehtas Earth, Daiya illuminates the cultural and political negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality and violence in transnational public spheres. Working with a multiplicity of texts this valuable new work will be essential reading for students of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, anthropology and gender. Contents Acknowledgements 1. Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition, and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere 2. Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance, and Secular Citizenship 3. A Crisis made Flesh: Women, Honor, and National Coupledom 4. We Were Never Refugees: Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State 5. War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema 6. Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora Conclusion Bibliography Index Printed Pages: 272. NA, Yoda Press/Cambridge University Press<