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Rukmini Bhaya Nair |
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Lying on the postcolonial couch [[electronic resource] ] : the idea of difference / / Rukmini Bhaya Nair |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2002 |
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0-8166-9035-9 |
0-8166-5289-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Apathy - India |
Postcolonialism - India |
India Politics and government 1947- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: INTERLOCUTION: THE ARRANGEMENT OF COUCHES; 1. Reading Texts, Resurrecting Cultures: Colonial Poetry in India (1757-1857); 2. The Pedigree of the White Stallion: Postcoloniality and Literary History; 3. Translation as a Speech Act: Twelve Versions of One Subversive Verse; PART II: CIRUMLOCUTION: THE INSTITUTION OF INDIFFERENCE; 4. Glossolalia: The Dissimilar Twins of Language and Literature; 5. Multiculturalism: Other Worlds in Edgar Allan Poe and Satyajit Ray; 6. Colonization: Omeros Sails between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean |
PART III: DELOCUTION: THE SACRALIZATION OF SUBJECTS7. Acts of Agency and Acts of God: Postcolonial Narratives of Disaster; 8. The Testament of the Tenth Muse: Toward a Feminist Sensibility; 9. A Fatwa against Indifference?: Of Shamianas, Death, and the Platonic Censors; Postscript; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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"Nair's book gives postcolonialism a decent burial and looks forward to 'a new language of community.' It exposes the 'numbing rituals of colonial and postcolonial indifference' with a light touch, pausing on postmodern theories on the way." -Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
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