Remapping the Indian postcolonial canon :
Menon, Nirmala,
Remapping the Indian postcolonial canon : remap, reimagine and retranslate / Nirmala Menon. - London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 - xiii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.
1. Introduction: The Rationale for Remapping the Postcolonial Canon: Why Remap
2. Representing the Postcolonial Subaltern: A Comparative Reading of Three Subaltern Narratives by O.V. Vijayan, Arundhati Roy, and Mahashweta Devi
3. The Hullabaloo about Hybridity: Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, Girish Karnad's Yayati and Heaps of Broken Images, and Lalithambika Antherjanam's Cast Me Out If You Will
4. Re-Imagining Postcolonial Translation Theory
5. Beyond the Indian Postcolonial
This book critically examines the postcolonial canon, questioning both the disproportionate attention to texts written in English and their overuse in attempts to understand the postcolonial condition. The author addresses the non-representation of Indian literature in theory, and the inadequacy of generalizing postcolonial experiences and subjectivities based on literature produced in one language (English). It Read more...
Includes the Hindi text of "Wang Chu" by Bhisham Sahni and an English translation by the author.
9781137537973 1137537973
1900-2099
Indic literature
Indic literature
Canon (Literature)
Postcolonialism.
Canon (Literature)
Indic literature.
Postcolonialism.--History and criticism.--20th century--History and criticism.--21st century
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
891.1 / MEN
Remapping the Indian postcolonial canon : remap, reimagine and retranslate / Nirmala Menon. - London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 - xiii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.
1. Introduction: The Rationale for Remapping the Postcolonial Canon: Why Remap
2. Representing the Postcolonial Subaltern: A Comparative Reading of Three Subaltern Narratives by O.V. Vijayan, Arundhati Roy, and Mahashweta Devi
3. The Hullabaloo about Hybridity: Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, Girish Karnad's Yayati and Heaps of Broken Images, and Lalithambika Antherjanam's Cast Me Out If You Will
4. Re-Imagining Postcolonial Translation Theory
5. Beyond the Indian Postcolonial
This book critically examines the postcolonial canon, questioning both the disproportionate attention to texts written in English and their overuse in attempts to understand the postcolonial condition. The author addresses the non-representation of Indian literature in theory, and the inadequacy of generalizing postcolonial experiences and subjectivities based on literature produced in one language (English). It Read more...
Includes the Hindi text of "Wang Chu" by Bhisham Sahni and an English translation by the author.
9781137537973 1137537973
1900-2099
Indic literature
Indic literature
Canon (Literature)
Postcolonialism.
Canon (Literature)
Indic literature.
Postcolonialism.--History and criticism.--20th century--History and criticism.--21st century
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
891.1 / MEN