Acts of angry writing : on citizenship and orientalism in postcolonial India / / Alessandra Marino

• Autore: Marino Alessandra (Research Associate)
• Pubblicazione: Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 240 pages :) : illustrations, map
• Disciplina: 809.8954
• Soggetto topico: Indic literature - Political aspects; Social problems in literature; Women authors, Indic - Political activity; Women political activists - India
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Mahasweta Devi. Poor, not criminals ; Devi against legal Orientalism -- "How does a law help?" Struggles for citizenship in the forests -- Modernity and modernism : "real" political subjects -- Arundhati Roy. "The cost of dams" : writing collective resistance -- Privatizing the commons, orientalizing adivasis -- Storytelling and the metamorphosis of literature -- Sampat Pal. Warrior in a pink sari : a subaltern autobiography -- Acts of violence or acts of citizenship? -- Between theory and practice. Performing citizenship : resignifying literature -- Acts of angry writing : ethics, subjectivity, and agency.
• Sommario/riassunto: Its rich discussion of performativity and speech acts theory bridges the gap between the fields of literary theory, law, and citizenship.
• Titolo autorizzato: Acts of angry writing
• ISBN: 9780814340585; 081434058X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911026009903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in citizenship studies.