Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture - Couverture souple

Chaudhuri, Amit

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906165017 ISBN 13 : 9781906165017

Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space, Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a modern Indian in relation to history. Often beginning with the personal, he inquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity. With the same elegance and intelligence for which he has become known, Chaudhuri writes in these essays about Indian popular culture and high culture, travel and location in Paris, Bombay, Dublin, Calcutta and New York, empire and nationalism, Indian and Western cinema, the place of the everyday in Indian creativity, music, art and literature, politics, race, cosmopolitanism, urban landscapes, Hollywood and Bollywood, Anglophone India, internationalism, globalisation, the Indian English tradition that predates Rushdie, post-colonialism and much more.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

The Author : Over the past 15 years, Amit Chaudhuri has made a name for himself as one of the most significant figures in contemporary culture. He is the author of several award-winning novels, including A Strange and Sublime Address and Afternoon Raag, as well as being an internationally acclaimed musician and influential essayist. His essays have appeared in many journals including the LRB and Granta. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906165017
• ISBN 13: 9781906165017
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
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