Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography - Writing the Nation Into Being

Informationen zum Autor NICOLE WEICKGENANNT THIARA received her MA from Heidelberg University, Germany, in English Studies and History, and was awarded a doctoral degree in English Studies from the University of Manchester, UK. She has taught at the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Liverpool Hope University. Klappentext Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Rushdie's critique of the Nehruvian legacy and the most significant recent trends in Indian historiography, especially the feminist and subalternist movements. Zusammenfassung Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation! this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Rushdie's critique of the Nehruvian legacy and the most significant recent trends in Indian historiography! especially the feminist and subalternist movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Introduction A Biography of the Nation Wives, Widows, and Witches The New God-and-Mammon India Mother India The Idea of a Hybrid India Notes Bibliography Index

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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction A Biography of the Nation Wives, Widows, and Witches The New God-and-Mammon India Mother India The Idea of a Hybrid India Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Kenneth A Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo, N. Weickgenannt Thiara, Nicole Weickgenannt Thiara
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2009
• EAN: 9780230205482
• ISBN: 978-0-230-20548-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Asia, Fiction, Historiography, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, World Literature, Historiography and Method, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Asia—History, Oriental literature, Asian Literature, bibliography;historiography;India