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“elwin susan john”

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  • Recall and Retell

    Literary Registers of Memory, Identity, and Resistance in India

    Edited by Elwin Susan John, Amal P Mathews ...
    This volume explores the instrumental role played by memory in our daily and collective narratives and the manifold ways in which it can destabilize those prevailing in India. It explores manifestations of memory and postmemory through written narratives, within India’s social, political, and cultural memoryscape. Drawing on archival research, oral history collection, and textual and critical ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Media Technology and Cultures of Memory

    Mapping Indian Narratives

    Edited by Elwin Susan John, Amal P Mathews ...
    Media Technology and Cultures of Memory studies narrative memories in India through oral, chirographic and digital cultures. It examines oral cultures of memory culled from diverse geographical and cultural landscapes of India and throws light on multiple aspects of remembering and registering the varied cultural tapestry of the country. The book also explores themes such as oral culture and ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

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    by Tabish Khair ...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures

    Edited by Ulka Anjaria, Anjali Nerlekar ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures refutes the Anglocentrism of much literary criticism of the global South by examining "Indian Literature" as a multilingual, dialogic, and plural space constituted by both continuities and divergences. In forty-three chapters and with a team of scholars who exemplify the method of historically situated and theoretically rigorous literary criticism, ... Read more

    $245.99 CAD

  • Vernacular English

    Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India

    by Akshya Saxena ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Remembrance, Forgetting and Utterance

    Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia

    Edited by Isha Dubey ...
    This volume explores new avenues in the field of memory studies. Going beyond Western frames of reference, it shows how religion, region, caste, and class and their intersectionality and the fraught legacy of colonialism shape acts of both collective remembrance and forgetting in South Asia. The chapters in the volume call for a substantive rethinking of the conceptual and methodological ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Literatures from Northeast India

    Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate

    Edited by K M Baharul Islam ...
    This book showcases the diverse literary traditions from India’s Northeast and their shared connections and lineages. It critically analyses a selection of literary works from authors and poets from this region and the hegemonies of language, ethnicity and politics that have framed these voices.As a region with rich cultural and ethnolinguistic diversity, Northeast India’s literature is ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from India and Beyond

    Edited by Simi Malhotra, Sheikh Sana Assad, Farhana Tasnim, Somya Charan Pahadi, Sango Bidani ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited volume offers a comprehensive revaluation of Trauma and Memory Studies, foregrounding perspectives from India and beyond. It critically interrogates the prevailing Euro-centric paradigm within the field, advocating for the amplification and contextualization of voices originating from South Asian spatial and temporal contexts. Departing from conventional West/North-centric narratives, ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Cultural Studies in India

    Edited by Rana Nayar ...
    This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory, subaltern studies, Marxism and post-Marxism, nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature, linguistics, history, political science, media and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Resistance and Literature in a Global Context

    Interpreting Meanings and Significance

    Edited by Prakash Chandra Pradhan ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The comprehensive volume delves into the discursive valences and contingencies of resistance. It examines key issues and situations within the complex power dynamics of various cultures, societies, nations, and ethnicities. It explores the varying meanings of resistance in different contexts with analyses of select literary texts from various works of literature worldwide that range from Tribal ... Read more

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  • Female Narratives of Protest

    Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia

    Edited by Nabanita Sengupta, Samrita Sengupta Sinha ...
    This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest.The book traces the origins, varied historiographies and socio-political consequences of women’s protests and feminist discourses. Bringing together narratives ... Read more

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  • Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Alex Tickell ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided critical opinion.This guide to Roy’s ground-breaking novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The God of Small ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD