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Hardcover. Zustand: New. The book aims to introduce the Bengali writer (1948-2014) to a global audience through some of his short stories and poems in English translation and a series of critical essays on his works. A political commitment to literature frames Nabarun Bhattacharya's aesthetic project and the volume wishes to tease out the various perspectives on this complex meeting of politics and aesthetics. Be it the novel on dogs or those on petro-pollution and the machine, the political question in Nabarun echoes significant contemporary issues, such as animal rights, global warming and techno-capitalism. This opens up the possibility of questioning the traditional paradigm of humanist values in a world of catastrophic and violent encounters such as nuclear war or holocaust, which keeps returning in Nabarun's works.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Postcolonialism Now introduces a new method of decolonial reading and criticism. It critically examines the history and ongoing influence of colonialism and imperialism in postcolonial cultures and texts. The volume seeks to address the crucial question of how to read postcolonial literatures closely and comparatively, particularly through the lenses of decolonisation and anticolonialism. Through rubrics such as migration, ecology, trauma, minorities and futurity, Postcolonialism Now engages with close readings of films, graphic novels, fiction, theatre and poetry from across the globe. "This is an elegantly written book which deftly weaves together the most important thinking on anticolonialism, postcolonialism and decolonisation with sophisticated comparative readings of important literary texts from across the globe. With clarity and insight, Bhattacharya elaborates both the vital political and historical issues at stake in the world we now live in as well as the lasting importance of the literary in addressing them. This book is essential reading for those teaching and researching these issues."Professor Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge "The book is a reminder that despite differences, the decolonial and the postcolonial work towards the shared ambition of imagining futures beyond the colonial/imperial gaze. The uniqueness of the volume lies in its rich contribution both at empirical and theoretical levels." Professor Nishat Zaidi, Department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia "The most fascinating hallmark of the book its comprehensive engagement with foundational and existing theoretic icons in this field, amplified further through the inclusion of new critical voices from the Global South. The book, a must read for anyone looking for new directions and relevance for postcolonial studies in the current conjuncture." Professor Anindya Purakayastha, Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata, and Kazi Nazrul University "Postcolonialism Now persuasively argues that we should all be 'reading for decolonising': that is, reading so that we can link past struggles to our present moment and take part in those to come. Richly contextualized, lucidly argued, and historically and materially grounded, this is committed criticism of the best kind." Dr Anna Bernard, Reader in Comparative Literature and English, King's College London.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967-72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975-77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian crisis enabling these catastrophic events. Novelists such as Bhabani Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Nabarun Bhattacharya, and Nayantara Sahgal, among others, have captured the relationship between the long-term crisis and the catastrophic aspects of the events through different aesthetic modalities within realism, ranging from analytical-affective, critical realist, quest modes to apparently non-realist ones such as metafictional, urban fantastic, magical realist, and others. These realist modalities are together read here as postcolonial catastrophic realism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel | On Catastrophic Realism | Sourit Bhattacharya | Taschenbuch | xiv | Englisch | 2021 | Springer, Berlin | EAN 9783030373993 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine, the 1967-72 Naxalbari Movement, and the 1975-77 Indian Emergency, it shows that there is a long-term, colonially-engineered agrarian crisis enabling these catastrophic events. Novelists such as Bhabani Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Nabarun Bhattacharya, and Nayantara Sahgal, among others, have captured the relationship between the long-term crisis and the catastrophic aspects of the events through different aesthetic modalities within realism, ranging from analytical-affective, critical realist, quest modes to apparently non-realist ones such as metafictional, urban fantastic, magical realist, and others. These realist modalities are together read here as postcolonial catastrophic realism.