Mallot Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia

2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-00706-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 235 Seiten, eBook

This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mallot, J. Edward

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I: The Limits of Memory The City Beautiful: Remembering and Dismembering Chandigarh I Didn't Kill Gandhi: Memory and the Bollywood Assassin A. Sivanandan, Romesh Gunesekera and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Histories Part II: The Texts of Memory Salman Rushdie's Alternative Historiographies Body Politics and the Body Politic: Memory as Human Inscription in Anil's Ghost and What the Body Remembers 'A Land Outside Space, An Expanse Without Distances': Amitav Ghosh, Kamila Shamsie and the Maps of Memory

Über Autor(innen)

J. EDWARD MALLOT is an Assistant Professor of Anglophone Postcolonial Literature at Arizona State University, USA.