Literary Theory and Criticism Recent Writings from South Asia 1st Edition by Arun Gupto 9781000453249 1000453243

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• ISBN 10: 1000453243
• ISBN 13: 9781000453249
• Author: Arun Gupto

The book explores key South Asian writings on cultural theory and literary criticism. It discusses the dynamics of textual contents, rhetorical styles, and socio-political issues through an exploration of seminal South Asian scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The volume examines concepts and methods of critical studies. It also discusses colonial and postcolonial discourses on art, religion, nationalism, identity, representation, resistance, and gender in the South Asian context. The essays are accompanied by textual questions and intertextual discussions on rhetorical, creative, and critical aspects of the selected texts. The exercise questions invite the reader to explore the mechanics of reading about and writing on discursive pieces in South Asian studies. Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this textbook will be indispensable for students and researchers of South Asian studies, cultural theory, literary criticism, postcolonial studies, literary and language studies, women and gender studies, rhetoric and composition, political sociology, and cultural studies.

Table contents:

PART I Theory
1 DissemiNation: Time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation
2 Belatedness as possibility: Subaltern histories, once again
3 The Blurring of Distinctions: The Artwork and the Religious Icon in Contemporary India
4 Women and freedom
5 Hyphenated post-colonial: A divergent perspective
6 Grassroots texts: Ethnographic ruptures and transnational feminist imaginaries
PART II Criticism
7 Of Mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse
8 Epilogue: The tantra of contemplative cultural critique
9 Post-colonial hybridity: Midnight’s children
10 Fragmenting nations and lives: Sunlight on a broken column
11 Punyakante Wijenaike: Spectral spaces
12 Chokher Bali: The novel of the new age

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