A01=Subramanian Shankar
asian culture
asian literacy criticism
Author_Subramanian Shankar
book club books
books about cultural analysis
books about different cultures
books about literature and film
books for history lovers
Category=DSBH5
cosmopolitanism
cultural spaces
culture lovers
discussion books
easy to read
english
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
feminism
hindi
historical
humanism
indian literature
leisure reads
postcolonial studies
postmodernism literacy criticism
realistic
south asian culture
tamil
tamil dalit
vacation reads
vernacular analysis
vernacular studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780520272521
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2012
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
In "Flesh and Fish Blood" Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of the first extended explorations of representations of caste, including a critical consideration of Tamil Dalit (so-called untouchable) literature. Shankar shows how these vernacular materials are often unexpectedly politically progressive and feminist, and provides insight on these oft-overlooked - but nonetheless sophisticated - South Asian cultural spaces. With its calls for renewed attention to translation issues and comparative methods in uncovering disregarded aspects of postcolonial societies, and provocative remarks on humanism and cosmopolitanism, "Flesh and Fish Blood" opens up new horizons of theoretical possibility for postcolonial studies and cultural analysis.
Subramanian Shankar is Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the author of Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Economy of the Text" and co-editor of Crossing into America: The New Literature of Immigration.
