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| gn devy after amnesia: "Of Many Heroes" G. N. Devy, 1998 This books is a sequel to After Amnesia, Dr Devy s Sahitya Akademi Award winning study. Of Many Heroes attempts to reconstruct the convention s of literary history in India prior to India s colonial encounter with the modern West. In some sections of the essay, the main focus is the mutual dependence of western literary history and cultural colonialism. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Indian Literary Criticism G. N. Devy, 2002 Literary criticism produced by Indian scholars from the earliest times to the present age is represented in this book. These include Bharatamuni, Tholkappiyar, Anandavardhana, Abhinavagupta, Jnaneshwara, Amir Khusrau, Mirza Ghalib, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, B.S. Mardhekar, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and A.K. Ramanujam and Sudhir Kakar among others. Their statements have been translated into English by specialists from Sanskrit, Persian and other languages. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Painted Words G. N. Devy, 2002 |
| gn devy after amnesia: Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, 1998 This book serves several purposes, all very much needed in today's embattled situation of the humanities and the study of literature. First, in Chapter One, the author proposes that the discipline of Comparative Literature is a most advantageous approach for the study of literature and culture as it is a priori a discipline of cross-disciplinarity and of international dimensions. After a Manifesto for a New Comparative Literature, he proceeds to offer several related theoretical frameworks as a composite method for the study of literature and culture he designates and explicates as the systemic and empirical approach. Following the introduction of the proposed New Comparative Literature, the author applies his method to a wide variety of literary and cultural areas of inquiry such as Literature and Cultural Participation where he discusses several aspects of reading and readership (Chapter Two), Comparative Literature as/and Interdisciplinarity (Chapter Three) where he deals with theory and application for film and literature and medicine and literature, Cultures, Peripheralities, and Comparative Literature (Chapter Four) where he proposes a theoretical designation he terms inbetween peripherality for the study of East Central European literatures and cultures as well as ethnic minority writing, Women's Literature and Men Writing about Women (Chapter Five) where he analyses texts written by women and texts about women written by men in the theoretical context of Ethical Constructivism, The Study of Translation and Comparative Literature (Chapter Six) where after a theoretical introduction he presents a new version of Anton Popovic's dictionary for literary translation as a taxonomy for the study of translation, and The Study of Literature and the Electronic Age (Chapter Seven), where he discusses the impact of new technologies on the study of literature and culture. The analyses in their various applications of the proposed New Comparative Literature involve modern and contemporary authors and their works such as Dorothy Richardson, Margit Kaffka, Mircea Cartarescu, Robert Musil, Alfred Döblin, Hermann Hesse, Péter Esterházy, Dezsö Kosztolányi, Michael Ondaatje, Endre Kukorelly, Else Seel, and others. |
| gn devy after amnesia: In Another Tongue G. N. Devy, 1993 This collection of essays brings together some of the most perceptive of Devy's essays on Indian English Literature, literary criticism, translation theory and Commonwealth criticism. They offer a historical perspective on the literary culture of Indian literature written in English. The areas of Indian English literature discussed in this volume range from fiction, poetry, criticism to travelogue, autobiography and translation. It pays special attention to literary historiography and literary criticism. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Post-colonial Translation Susan Bassnett, Harish Trivedi, 1999 The book should be of use to those working in translation studies and comparative literature. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Constructing a New Canon of Post-1980s Indian English Fiction Sahdev Luhar, Madhurita Choudhary, 2017-08-21 The literary canon implies the evaluation or estimation of certain literary texts as the most important during a particular time. The canon is not merely a set of texts; it is a set of standards, evaluative procedures and values. Belonging to a canon confers a guarantee of literary greatness. A canon is formed, by a particular group, to channelize cultural hegemony over others, or, can be constructed, by a governed group, to bring about cultural symmetry. The rise of diverse literatures in English in different parts of the world after the colonial rule of England was the consequence of an urge to articulate a cultural equilibrium or an urge to strike back. The process of canon formation is also a focused and bigoted act, and is always carried out to accomplish certain self-centred objectives. It is commonly accepted that canon formation is executed to accomplish or naturalize certain ideological functions. In the sphere of Indian English literature, Indian English fiction after the end of the 1980s has emerged as a new “canon”. This book looks into the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon and as an anti-imperialistic response to the British literary canon. The book ascertains the anti-imperialistic design involved in forming the canon of post-1980 Indian English fiction, examines the gradual emerging trends in such fiction, and discerns the role of language, culture, and native ethos in the formation of a canon. It also differentiates post-1980s Indian English fiction from British fiction, bhasa fiction, and even from pre-1980s Indian English fiction. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime Vijay Mishra, 1998-01-01 Combines Western theories of the sublime (from Longinus to Lyotard) with indigenous Indian modes of reading in order to construct a comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Communicating with Asia Gerhard Leitner, Azirah Hashim, Hans-Georg Wolf, 2016-01-11 In today's global world, where Asia is an increasing area of focus, it is vital to explore what it means to 'understand' Asian cultures through English and other languages. This volume presents new research on English in Asia, alongside Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, Russian and other languages. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Countering Violence G. N. Devy, 2019 The industrial Revolution and the resulting dependence on machine production led to a large-scale tendency towards violence. Mechanised Wars, colonisation, and globalisation have given violence and greed Supreme importance in human thought and action. As a result, what was considered terrible violence even a few decades ago has now become a normal part of human life.Countering Violence: presents a philosophical understanding of the sources of violence. It brings together the authors journal accounts of tribal riots in Western India in the aftermath of the Gujarat riots of 2002, and the recent resistance movement of writers and artists, called dakshinayan. It stresses the importance of a fearless and non-violent response to the dark clouds of hatred, intimidation and violence.The essays in this book are a result of the authors deep engagement with thought and action related to the question of non-violence. An important statement on violence and constructive action, the book holds out the hope that reading it might strengthen the readers resolve to make this world less violent.Read more |
| gn devy after amnesia: After Amnesia G. N. Devy, 1995 After Amnesia is an original analysis of literary criticism in India. It is an attempt to describe what is recognised by common agreement to be a crisis in Indian criticism, and to explain it in historical terms. Dr Devy argues that the colonial experience in India gave rise to false images of the West as a superior culture; and induced a state of cultural amnesia and mistaken modes of literary criticism. It is this amnesia that is responsible for the belief among literary historians that the critical tradition in the modern Indian languages for instance, Gujarati and Marathi is only over a hundred years old. The author argues that it is inconceivable for these languages to have produced great literatures for half a millennium without developing some form of literary criticism. Therefore, he says, it is necessary to postulate a more reliable literary history. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar, 2012-07-02 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. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Thinking Literature across Continents Ranjan Ghosh, J. Hillis Miller, 2016-12-16 Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debate and reflect upon what literature is, can be, and do in variety of contexts ranging from Victorian literature and Chinese literary criticism to Sanskrit Poetics and Continental philosophy. |
| gn devy after amnesia: A Nomad Called Thief G. N. Devy, 2006 A collection of essays on Adivasis. Tribal groups (adivasis) in India have often been excluded, marginalized and oppressed by `mainstream society. In many ways this exclusion, marginalization and oppression is fostered by the way in which `mainstream society looks at the adivasis as exotic, dangerous, or `primitive others. Devy s book looks at the problems of adivasis, the threat to their physical environment, the terror and indignity of the stigma of being considered criminal tribes and their induction into the communal violence in Gujarat. But he also discusses the simple sophistication of Adivasi knowledge systems, language and literature, as also initiatives taken along with tribals in the areas of health, microfinance and preservation of cultural forms. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Real and Imagined Women Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 2003-09-02 First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| gn devy after amnesia: In Theory Aijaz Ahmad, 1994 After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin America and the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference and the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement, many of Europe's former colonies banded together to form a common bloc, aligned with neither the advanced capitalist First World nor with the socialist Second World. In this historical context, the category of Third World literature emerged, a category that has itself spawned a whole industry of scholarly and critical studies, particularly in the metropolitan West, but increasingly in the homelands of the Third World itself. Setting himself against the growing tendency to homogenize Third World literature and cultures, Aijaz Ahmad has produced a spirited critique of the major theoretical statements on colonial discourse and post-colonialism, dismantling many of the commonplaces and conceits that dominate contemporary cultural criticism. With lengthy considerations of, among others, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and the Subaltern Studies group, In Theory also contains brilliant analyses of the concept of Indian literature, of the genealogy of the term Third World, and of the conditions under which so-called colonial discourse theory emerged in metropolitan intellectual circles. Erudite and lucid, Ahmad's remapping of the terrain of cultural theory is certain to provoke passionate response. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Indian Genre Fiction Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani, Anwesha Maity, 2018-07-06 This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way into university curricula and consideration by literary critics in India and the West. However, there has been no substantial study of genre fiction in the Indian languages, least of all from a comparative perspective. This volume, with contributions from leading national and international scholars, addresses this lacuna in critical scholarship and provides an overview of diverse genre fictions. Using methods from literary analysis, book history and Indian aesthetic theories, the volume throws light on the variety of contexts in which genre literature is read, activated and used, from political debates surrounding national and regional identities to caste and class conflicts. It shows that Indian genre fiction (including pulp fiction, comics and graphic novels) transmutes across languages, time periods, in translation and through publication processes. While the book focuses on contemporary postcolonial genre literature production, it also draws connections to individual, centuries-long literary traditions of genre literature in the Indian subcontinent. Further, it traces contested hierarchies within these languages as well as current trends in genre fiction criticism. Lucid and comprehensive, this book will be of great interest to academics, students, practitioners, literary critics and historians in the fields of postcolonialism, genre studies, global genre fiction, media and popular culture, South Asian literature, Indian literature, detective fiction, science fiction, romance, crime fiction, horror, mythology, graphic novels, comparative literature and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to the informed general reader. |
| gn devy after amnesia: The Laghukatha Ira Valeria Sarma, 2003 The book presented here is the first work of Western literary criticism to examine the Hindi laghukathā - a modern Indian prose genre that has been published since the 1970s in Hindi newspapers and magazines and is characterised by its concise form (500 words on average) and socio-political agenda. The importance of the genre within the Hindi literary scene lies in the fact that the laghukathā is based on indigenous genres which have been modernised, whereas the Hindi short story and the novel are Western genres that have been appropriated and Indianised. A thorough investigation of around 280 primary texts accompanied by an evaluation of the relevant Hindi criticism gives a comprehensive literary analysis of this genre and its historical development. This allows, in conclusion, to delineate an ideal type of laghukathā, suggesting a range of compulsory, desirable and optional features. English translations of almost 50 representative Hindi texts complete the picture and thus provide an insight into this genre so far unknown to a Western audience. |
| gn devy after amnesia: House Of Blue Mangoes David Davidar, 2002-12 It Is The Last Year Of The Nineteenth Century In The Village Of Chevathar In Southern India. Solomon Dorai, The Headman, Is Desperately Trying To Hold Together The Fraying Ends Of Village Life At A Time Of Huge Social And Political Unease. When Violence Finally Erupts, It Takes Solomon And The Traditional Structure Of The Village With It. Three Generations Of Dorais Come And Go In The Village By The Sea, Winning And Losing The Battle For Chevathar. There Are Solomon S Sons: The Dazzling, Athletic Aaron And The Studious Daniel, Both Exiled By Their Father S Death But, In Different Ways, Both Determined To Make Their Mark On The World. And There Is Daniel S Son, Kannan, Faced With A Set Of Challenges That Could Break Him If He Isn T Strong Enough. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Orality and Language G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, 2020-10-29 Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of the society, culture and literature among indigenous peoples. This book, the fourth in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of language and orality of indigenous peoples from Asia, Australia, North America and South America. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts from across the globe, it looks at the intricacies of oral transmission of memory and culture, literary production and transmission, and the nature of creativity among indigenous communities. It also discusses the risk of a complete decline of the languages of indigenous peoples, as well as the attempts being made to conserve these languages. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book, with its wide coverage, will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, literary and postcolonial studies, and Third World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities. |
| gn devy after amnesia: The Scandal of the State Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 2003-04-09 The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding women’s identities and how, reciprocally, women and “women’s issues” affect the state’s role and function. She argues that in India law and citizenship define for women not only the scope of political rights but also cultural identity and everyday life. Sunder Rajan delineates the postcolonial state in implicit contrast with the “enlightened,” postfeminist neoliberal state in the West. Her analysis wrestles with complex social realities, taking into account the influence of age, ethnicity, religion, and class on individual and group identities as well as the shifting, heterogeneous nature of the state itself. The Scandal of the State develops through a series of compelling case studies, each of which centers around an incident exposing the contradictory position of the Indian state vis-à-vis its female citizens and, ultimately, the inadequacy of its commitment to women’s rights. Sunder Rajan focuses on the custody battle over a Muslim child bride, the compulsory sterilization of mentally retarded women in state institutional care, female infanticide in Tamilnadu, prostitution as labor rather than crime, and the surrender of the female outlaw Phoolan Devi. She also looks at the ways the Uniform Civil Code presented many women with a stark choice between allegiance to their religion and community or the secular assertion of individual rights. Rich with theoretical acumen and activist passion, The Scandal of the State is a powerful critique of the mutual dependence of women and the state on one another in the specific context of a postcolonial modernity. |
| gn devy after amnesia: The Language Loss of the Indigenous G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K. K. Chakravarty, 2016-02-26 This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise — the mismatch between the symbiotic relation nurtured by the indigenous with their environment and the idea of development put before them as their future. The essays here show how the cultures and the imaginative expressions of indigenous communities all over the world are undergoing a phase of rapid depletion. They unravel the indifference of market forces to diversity and that of the states, unwilling to protect and safeguard these marginalized communities. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural and literary studies, linguistics, sociology and social anthropology, as well as tribal and indigenous studies. |
| gn devy after amnesia: The Modernity of Sanskrit Simona Sawhney, 2009 Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session |
| gn devy after amnesia: Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis Cecile Sandten, Annika Bauer, 2016-09-27 The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents). The essays explore, on the one hand, ideas of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation, and, on the other, the possibility of transforming, reinventing and reconfigurating the ‘postcolonial condition’ in and through literary texts and visual narratives. In this context, the volume covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and thematic approaches to postcolonial and metropolitan topographies and their depictions in writings from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, and greater Asia, as well as the UK, addressing issues such as modernity and market economies but also caste, class, and social and linguistic aspects. At the same time, they reflect on the postcolonial metropolis and postcolonialism in the metropolis by concentrating on an urban imaginary which turns on notions of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation – as the continuing ‘postcolonial’ condition. |
| gn devy after amnesia: The Invention of Private Life Sudipta Kaviraj, 2015 An acclaimed political thinker traces the intimate experiences of history in the formal experiments of modern literature. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Literary Criticism and Theory Pelagia Goulimari, 2014-09-15 This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Jareela Bhalchandra Nemade, 2024-08-01 जरीला चांगदेव पाटील नामक युवक के बहाने उस अखिल भारतीय भूमि की जटिल वास्तविकता से रूबरू कराता है जो जाति, धर्म, परम्परा, संस्कार और इनके साथ ईर्ष्या, अहंकार, स्पर्द्धा आदि भावों के मिलने से बनती है। इसमें भारतीय जन-जीवन के उस पहलू रेखांकित किया गया है जिसे किसी एक प्रान्त या स्थान तक सीमित नहीं किया जा सकता। चांगदेव इस भूमि पर स्वयं को अकेला अनुभव करता है। वह अपने आसपास की संकीर्णताओं से ऊब उठता है लेकिन किसी से स्थायी घृणा उसे कभी नहीं होती। अपनी तरफ से वह अपेक्षा से ज्यादा देता है और जवाब में बहुत कम चाहता है। उसके लिए बड़े सवाल वे नहीं जो आसपास के सब लोगों के हैं। अपने होने की परम सार्थकता को अनुभव कर पाना ही उसकी एकमात्र इच्छा है। वह एक पहाड़ी गाँव के कॉलेज में प्रोफेसर है जहाँ पर जाति की राजनीति सबसे प्रभावी शक्ति है। लेकिन वह उस सबसे ऊपर उठकर अपना काम करता रहता है और खुश है। विद्यालय के सहकर्मी अध्यापकों और गाँव के लोगों के साथ उसका अपनी तरह का एक सम्बन्ध बनता है। लेकिन तभी गाँव का ट्रांसफार्मर जल जाता है, और छह महीने के लिए लोग वापस अन्धकार युग में चले जाते हैं। बाहर का यह अँधेरा धीरे-धीरे उसके भीतरी अकेलेपन को इतना गहरा देता है कि वह घबरा उठता है। किसी से या कहीं से अन्तिम तौर पर जुड़ नहीं जाना है, उसका यह आन्तरिक आग्रह भी उसे गतिमान रखता है। अपने मामूलीपन को बचाते हुए वह जिन मूल्यों की रक्षा करता है, वे उसके सामने बहुत स्पष्ट नहीं हैं लेकिन वह उसी अस्पष्ट से मानवीय आग्रह के आधार पर अपने व्यक्तित्व को खड़ा करता है। जरीला स्वतंत्र रूप से उतना ही दिलचस्प और पूर्ण पाठ है, जितना कि शृंखला की एक कड़ी के रूप में। यह एक बड़ी विशेषता है। |
| gn devy after amnesia: Indigeneity and Nation G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, 2020-10-07 Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. The book, the third in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of indigeneity and nation of indigenous people from all the continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts across the globe, it looks at issues and ideas of indigeneity, nationhood, nationality, State, identity, selfhood, constitutionalism, and citizenship in Africa, North America, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and Oceania, India, and Southeast Asia from philosophical, cultural, historical and literary points of view. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book with its wide coverage will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, literary and postcolonial studies, Third World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Changing the Terms Collectif, 2017-09-26 This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. Changing the Terms examines stimulating links that are currently being forged between linguistics, literature and cultural theory. In doing so, the authors probe complex sequences of intercultural contact, fusion and breach. The impact that history and politics have had on the role of translation in the evolution of literary and cultural relations is investigated in fascinating detail. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Gender and Caste Anupama Rao, 2005-07-08 Contributed articles on the issues related to Dalit women in India. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Who Is a Muslim? Maryam Wasif Khan, 2021-01-19 Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship. |
| gn devy after amnesia: The Question of Silence G. N. Devy, 2019 |
| gn devy after amnesia: The Crisis of Secularism in India Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 2007-01-18 While secularism has been integral to India’s democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and religion include the violence directed against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the precarious situation of India’s minority religious groups more generally; the existence of personal laws that vary by religious community; the affiliation of political parties with fundamentalist religious organizations; and the rallying of a significant proportion of the diasporic Hindu community behind a resurgent nationalist Hinduism. There is a broad consensus that a crisis of secularism exists, but whether the state can resolve conflicts and ease tensions or is itself part of the problem is a matter of vigorous political and intellectual debate. In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading Indian cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India. Scholars of history, anthropology, religion, politics, law, philosophy, and media studies take on a broad range of concerns. Some consider the history of secularism in India; others explore theoretical issues such as the relationship between secularism and democracy or the shortcomings of the categories “majority” and “minority.” Contributors examine how the debates about secularism play out in schools, the media, and the popular cinema. And they address two of the most politically charged sites of crisis: personal law and the right to practice and encourage religious conversion. Together the essays inject insightful analysis into the fraught controversy about the shortcomings and uncertain future of secularism in the world today. Contributors. Flavia Agnes, Upendra Baxi, Shyam Benegal, Akeel Bilgrami, Partha Chatterjee, V. Geetha, Sunil Khilnani, Nivedita Menon, Ashis Nandy, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Gyanendra Pandey, Gyan Prakash, Arvind Rajagopal, Paula Richman, Sumit Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Shabnum Tejani, Romila Thapar, Ravi S. Vasudevan, Gauri Viswanathan |
| gn devy after amnesia: Indian English Novel Gajendra Kumar, 2002 |
| gn devy after amnesia: Gendering Minorities B. S. Sherin, 2021 |
| gn devy after amnesia: Colonial Transactions Harish Trivedi, 1995 |
| gn devy after amnesia: The Perishable Empire Dr Meenakshi Mukherjee, 2003-03-27 This book provides a new perspective on Indian writing in English by researching into its nineteenth century origins and seeing its subsequent development in relation to other Indian language literatures. |
| gn devy after amnesia: Impossible Desires Gayatri Gopinath, 2005-04-19 By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossible within diaspora: the impure, inauthentic, and nonreproductive. Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside not only mainstream narratives of diaspora, colonialism, and nationalism but also most projects of liberal feminism and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. Among the fictional works she discusses are V. S. Naipaul’s classic novel A House for Mr. Biswas, Ismat Chughtai’s short story “The Quilt,” Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy, and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta’s controversial Fire and Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood’s strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath’s readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching. |
| gn devy after amnesia: The Golden Gate Vikram Seth, 1986 The Great California Novel Has Been Written, In Verse (And Why Not?): The Golden Gate Gives Great Joy' Gore Vidal 'A New Star In The Literary Firmament & It Outshines In Brilliance Anything That I Have Seen In Half-A-Century Of Star-Spotting & Seth Has The Stuff That Nobel Laureates Are Made Of' Khushwant Singh, Illustrated Weekly Of India 'A Tour De Force Of Rhyme And Reasonableness. The Golden Gate Doesn'T Only Compellingly Advocate Life'S Pleasures, It Stylishly Contributes Another One To Them' Sunday Times , London 'Seth Is The Most Astute And Sharp-Tongued Social Critic To Arrive On The Scene Since Jonathan Swift' India Today 'A Thing Of Anomalous Beauty & Seth Writes Poetry As It Has Not Been Written For A Century' Washington Post Book World |
| gn devy after amnesia: A Kitchen in the Corner of the House AMBAI, 2019-09-17 A Kitchen in the Corner of the House collects twenty-five gem-like stories on motherhood, sexuality, and the body from the innovative and perceptive Tamil writer Ambai. In A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, Ambai's narrators are daring and courageous, stretching and reinventing their homes, marriages, and worlds. With each story, her expansive voice confronts the construction of gender in Tamil literature. Piecing together letters, journal entries, and notes, Ambai weaves themes of both self-liberation and confinement into her writing. Her transfixing stories often meditate on motherhood, sexuality, and the liberating, and at times inhibiting, contours of the body. |
GN Meaning: The Meaning and Interesting Conversation Examples …
Mar 4, 2020 · Examples Using GN. Example 1: Conversation between two friends. Person 1: It’s time to sleep, see you tomorrow. GN! Person 2: Ok, GN! Example 2: Conversation between …
Nostalgia & History > Where is this GN Caboose? - Trainorders.com
When I was a kid growing up on Lake Minnetonka circa 1962-64 the GN used such a caboose on the "Hutch," its Wayzata - Hutchinson, MN way freight. I can remember it passing behind the …
Nostalgia & History > GN varnish for a location - Trainorders.com
Great photo. The consist looks almost brand new. As I understand it, GN's Gopher and Badger were regular assignments for GN's small fleet of E7s. The E7s were originally purchased for …
Nostalgia & History > 2 of BN SDP40s -- ex GN - Trainorders.com
1. Burlington Northern EMD SDP40 6399 built May 1966 as GN 325, became BNSF 6327 and seen in W. Quincy, MO June 28, 1985. Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS Collection 2. …
Nostalgia & History > GN is all Wet - Trainorders.com
Northbound GN International stopped at the station in Everett, WA on a rainy day in 1960. The train is stopped short of California St in Everett. Soon GN #351-A will depart northbound along …
Explain to Me This - The GN Extension To California
An additional 35 miles of new construction brought the GN into Chemult, completing the new line. The first GN trains entered Klamath Falls in 1928. GN did not pause long in Klamath Falls. By …
Gildersleeve copy slide classics (vol 2): GN juice! - Trainorders.com
With the Milwaukee Road’s electric presence in the PNW it’s sorta easy to overlook the Great Northern. But not for long... :^) 1. GN 5018 is in Wenatchee, WA circa 1954. Donald Duke …
Spokane Area Track Alignments (GN/NP/UP/MILW/SP&S)
The GN and UP stations were on the World's Fair site. All that remains of the stations is the GN's clock tower. What we may think of nostalgically now, was really quite dingy and downtrodden …
GN Appekunny Mountain #1290 - Trainorders.com
The "Appekunny Mountain" a 3 roomette-observation-lounge built in 1951 by AC&F for the Empire Builder. In this view at the Holgate Street coach yards near King …
BNSF SD Units -- 2 SD40-2s and a SD75M - Trainorders.com
1. BNSF EMD SD40-2 6397 built May 1966 as GN SDP-40 323, then was BN 6397 and seen at Galesburg, IL April 15, 2006. Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS Collection 2. BNSF EMD …
GN Meaning: The Meaning and Interesting Conversation …
Mar 4, 2020 · Examples Using GN. Example 1: Conversation between two friends. Person 1: It’s time to sleep, see you tomorrow. GN! Person 2: Ok, GN! Example 2: Conversation between …
Nostalgia & History > Where is this GN Caboose? - Trainorders.com
When I was a kid growing up on Lake Minnetonka circa 1962-64 the GN used such a caboose on the "Hutch," its Wayzata - Hutchinson, MN way freight. I can remember it passing behind the …
Nostalgia & History > GN varnish for a location - Trainorders.com
Great photo. The consist looks almost brand new. As I understand it, GN's Gopher and Badger were regular assignments for GN's small fleet of E7s. The E7s were originally purchased for …
Nostalgia & History > 2 of BN SDP40s -- ex GN - Trainorders.com
1. Burlington Northern EMD SDP40 6399 built May 1966 as GN 325, became BNSF 6327 and seen in W. Quincy, MO June 28, 1985. Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS Collection 2. …
Nostalgia & History > GN is all Wet - Trainorders.com
Northbound GN International stopped at the station in Everett, WA on a rainy day in 1960. The train is stopped short of California St in Everett. Soon GN #351-A will depart northbound along …
Explain to Me This - The GN Extension To California
An additional 35 miles of new construction brought the GN into Chemult, completing the new line. The first GN trains entered Klamath Falls in 1928. GN did not pause long in Klamath Falls. By …
Gildersleeve copy slide classics (vol 2): GN juice! - Trainorders.com
With the Milwaukee Road’s electric presence in the PNW it’s sorta easy to overlook the Great Northern. But not for long... :^) 1. GN 5018 is in Wenatchee, WA circa 1954. Donald Duke …
Spokane Area Track Alignments (GN/NP/UP/MILW/SP&S)
The GN and UP stations were on the World's Fair site. All that remains of the stations is the GN's clock tower. What we may think of nostalgically now, was really quite dingy and downtrodden …
GN Appekunny Mountain #1290 - Trainorders.com
The "Appekunny Mountain" a 3 roomette-observation-lounge built in 1951 by AC&F for the Empire Builder. In this view at the Holgate Street coach yards near King …
BNSF SD Units -- 2 SD40-2s and a SD75M - Trainorders.com
1. BNSF EMD SD40-2 6397 built May 1966 as GN SDP-40 323, then was BN 6397 and seen at Galesburg, IL April 15, 2006. Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS Collection 2. BNSF EMD …
