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Informationen zum Autor Elleke Boehmer, Rosinka Chaudhuri Klappentext An invaluable resource for those working on postcolonial studies, Subaltern studies and Indian literature and culture, this critical reader brings together classic essays and newly commissioned pieces from leading experts in the field. Focussing on postcolonial issues through the lens of regional and cultural geography, the collection is divided into four comprehensive and thought-provoking sections on Literature, History, Politics and Culture. Zusammenfassung A collection that offers an investigation of the work produced with regard to a particular political and national location of postcoloniality. Focusing on the presentation of postcolonial theory within an Indian context, it includes sections on visual cultures, translating cultural traditions, the ethical text, and global/cosmopolitan worlds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri Part 1 - Visual Cultures Introduction - Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 1. Partha Chatterjee. 'Nationalist Icon to Secular Image' 2. Tapati Guha Thakurta. 'Religious Icon and Art: The Case of M.F. Hussain' 3. Robert Young, 'Sanjayit Ray' 4. M. Madhava Prasad, 'Fan Bhakti and Subaltern Sovereignty: Enthusiasm as a Political Factor' Part 2 - Translating Cultural Traditions Introduction - Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 5. Aamir Mufti, 'Auerbach in Istanbul' 6. Vinayak Chaturvedi, 'Vinayak and Me' 7. Dipesh Chakrabarty, 'Belatedness as Possibility: Subaltern Histories, once again' 8. Aniket Jaiware, 'Of Demons and Angels' Part 3 - The Ethical Text Introduction - Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 9. Gayatri Spivak, 'Ethics and Politics in Tagore and Coetzee' 10. Udaya Kumar, 'Self, Body and Inner Sense'. Studies in History' 11. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 'Gandhian Ethics' 12. Ashis Nandy, 'Humiliation: The Politics and Cultural Psychology of the Limits of Human Degradation' Part 4 - Global/cosmopolitan worlds Introduction - Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 13. Amit Chaudhuri, 'The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism' 14. Santanu Das, 'India, Empire, and First World War writing' 15. Nivedita Menon, 'Thinking through the Postnation' 16. Ranajit Guha, 'A Colonial City and its Times' ...
