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Alternative Indias : writin...
The debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Indian writing in English has fostered a long tradition of political dissent, and has repeatedly questioned ethnocentric, culturally exclusive forms of p.
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monografia Rebiun22472949 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun22472949 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 060726s2005 ne ob 001 0 eng d 144524902 714567338 744551174 764535838 847480970 961492430 962625010 1423789040 electronic bk.) 9781423789048 electronic bk.) 9789401202596 9401202591 9789042019270 9042019271 hd. bd.) N$T eng pn N$T YDXCP OCLCQ E7B OCLCQ COO OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCO OCL OCLCQ EBLCP CN3GA OCLCQ AZK LOA COCUF MOR PIFAG VGM ZCU MERUC OCLCQ U3W OCLCA STF WRM VTS NRAMU OCLCA ICG OCLCQ TKN DKC OCLCQ M8D a-ii--- TRV 026090 bisacsh LIT 000000 bisacsh Alternative Indias writing, nation and communalism edited by Peter Morey and Alex Tickell Amsterdam New York Rodopi 2005 Amsterdam New York Amsterdam New York Rodopi 1 online resource (xxxviii, 238 pages) 1 online resource (xxxviii, 238 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English 0924-1426 82 Includes bibliographical references and index Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Limits of Secularism and the Construction of Composite National Identity in India; The Discovery of Aryavarta: Hindu Nationalism and Early Indian Fiction in English; "First Realise Your Need": Manju Kapur's Erotic Nation; "Cutting Across Time": Memory, Narrative, and Identity in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies; The Communalization and Disintegration of Urdu in Anita Desai's In Custody; "Reflexive Worlds": The Indias of A.K. Ramanujan; Communalism, Corruption and Duty in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters The Routes of National Identity in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow LinesInscribing a Sikh India: An Alternative Reading of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan; No Passports, No Visas: The Line of Control Between India and Pakistan in Contemporary Bombay Cinema; Afterword; Contributors; Index The debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Indian writing in English has fostered a long tradition of political dissent, and has repeatedly questioned ethnocentric, culturally exclusive forms of p. Nationalism in literature Communalism in literature Writing in literature Religion and literature- India TRAVEL- Special Interest- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM- General. Communalism in literature. Nationalism in literature. Religion and literature. Writing in literature. India Electronic books Morey, Peter Tickell, Alex Print version Alternative Indias. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005 9042019271 (OCoLC)63764153 Cross/cultures 82