Multicultural and marginalized voices of postcolonial literature / / edited by Varun Gulati and Garima Dalal ; foreword by Shirley R. Samuels

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.93358
• Soggetto topico: Postcolonialism in literature; Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Persona (resp. second.): GulatiVarun; DalalGarima; SamuelsShirley R.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Scripting Cultural Codes: Woman and Cinema / Rachel Bari -- De-linking Existence: From Dasein to Damne / Arti Nirmal and Sayan Dey -- Displaced Denizens: A Sociohistorical Reading of the Literature of Displacement from Assam / Mukuta Borah -- Colonialism/Postcolonialism: A Multicultural South Asian Perspective / Vipan Pal Singh -- Nation-State and State of Nationlessness: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient / Guru Charan Behera -- Dynamics of Marginalized Female Voices in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child / Geetanjali Multani -- Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood: Linking Nature and Motherhood / Sarannya V. Pillai -- History in Expatriate Experience: The Sacred Burden Borne in China Men and The Woman Warrior / Sonali Garg -- Reading the Autobiography of Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke as a Community Biography / Melissa Helen -- Fear of Pollution: A Study of Humiliation in Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand / Fatima Syeda -- Revisiting Class in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable: Postmodern Reflections / Golam Gaus Al-Quaderi and Sheikh Nahid Neazy -- Locating Subaltern Voices in Anita Agnihotri's The Awakening / Aaleya Giri and Anju Mehra -- New Historical Approach to Analyzing the Novel A Bend in the Ganges by Malgonkar / Pooja Gupta and Shalini Vohra -- Scrutinizing the Dark Stature of the Second Sex in Society: A Critique of Shashi Deshpande's Selected Works / Poonam Pahuja.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Women and the word "marginalization" have never remained oxymoronic -- the cross-cultural texts and Engel's interest in subjugation make a perfect recipe for this incongruity. Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature traces multifarious facets of marginalized literature across the world, giving a brilliant overview of the historical roots of multicultural and marginalized sections. The fourteen chapters relate key literary and cultural texts and cover a broad spectrum of historical, linguistic, and theoretical issues. There are three sections in the book -- section I deals specifically with theoretical constructions and representations. Section II offers a varied spectrum of discourses on world literature, intersecting with the frameworks of literary theories. Section III explores the minds of dalits, subalterns, colonial women, and gender issues, and a variety of Indian English writers that draw varied perspectives"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Multicultural and marginalized voices of postcolonial literature
• ISBN: 1-4985-4745-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793096303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II