Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism
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bharatiya
Bharatiya Janata Party
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colonial discourse analysis
Common Language
cultural hybridity
diaspora studies
Diasporic Subjectivity
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East Pakistan
Ellowen Deeowen
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Ethno National Diasporas
Gibreel Farishta
identity politics
Immigrant Nationalisms
indus
Indus Valley Civilization
janata
literary criticism South Asia
literature
Manichean Allegory
Midnight's Children
Migrant Transnational Subject
Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
Muslim World
Mystic Masseur
pakistan
party
postcolonial theory
Ram Janmabhoomi
Ram Janmabhoomi Movement
Sahitya Akademi Award
Saladin Chamcha
satanic
Shadow Lines
Tamil Nadu
transnational literary identity formation
Transnational Social Field
urdu
Urdu Literature
Urdu Poet
Urdu Poetry
verses
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- ISBN 9780415803083
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The book focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Concentrating on the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism, and fundamentalism, the book addresses the dislocation associated with these phenomena, offering a critical dialogue between these works and contemporary history, using history to interrogate fiction and fiction to think through historical issues. Despite all their differences, the works of these authors delineate the asymmetrical relations of colonialism and the aftermath of this phenomenon as it is manifested across the globe. The binary structures created by the colonial encounter undergo a process of dialectical interplay in which each culture makes incursions into the other. This dialogic interplay becomes the basis for strategies that enable transnational and postcolonial writers to reimagine themselves and their world. The book shows, for instance, how Naipaul articulates a sensibility created by multilayered identities and the remapping of old imperial landscapes, in the process suggesting a new dynamic of power relations in which politics and selfhood, empire and psychology, prove to be profoundly interrelated; how Rushdie encourages a nationalist self-imagining and a rewriting of history that incorporate profound cultural, religious, and linguistic differences into our sense of identity; how Ghosh is critical of the putative cultural and religious necessity to forge a unified nationalist identity, arguing that no single theory sufficiently frames the multiple inheritances of present diasporic subjectivities; and how Desai seeks to imagine a responsible form of artistic, social, and political agency. Although transnationalism, then, can have positive effects, which have been celebrated in terms such as hybridity, the book suggests why this sort of term, too, cannot be a stopping-place for our thinking about a world radically transformed by postcolonial struggles.
