Limiting secularism [[electronic resource] ] : the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film / / Priya Kumar

• Autore: Kumar Priya
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.8954
• Soggetto topico: South Asian literature - 20th century - History and criticism; South Asian literature - Moral and ethical aspects; Motion pictures - Moral and ethical aspects - India; Secularism in literature; Secularism in motion pictures
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: At Home with the Stranger; 1 Rethinking Secularism; 2 For God's Sake, Open the Universe a Little More: Cosmopolitan Fictions; 3 Acts of Return: Literature and Post-Partition Memory; 4 Fictions of Violence: Witnessing and Survival in Partition Literature; 5 It's My Home, Too: Minoritarian Claims on the Nation; Postscript; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumars Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of Indian"" from ""Pakistani"" and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation.Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more ethical cohabitation can rep
• Titolo autorizzato: Limiting secularism
• ISBN: 0-8166-5665-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452234803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II