Beyond Alterity Contemporary Indian Fiction And The Neoliberal Script
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Beyond Alterity Contemporary Indian Fiction And The Neoliberal Script
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Author : Shakti Jaising
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-15
Beyond Alterity Contemporary Indian Fiction And The Neoliberal Script written by Shakti Jaising and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beyond Alterity contests a core tendency in postcolonial studies as well as emerging critiques of neoliberalism—to assume that nations of the Global South are categorically distinct from their counterparts in the North and that they provide an alternative, or even an antidote, to the competitive and individualistic cultures of the advanced capitalist world. Through a textured analysis of cultural production from contemporary India, Shakti Jaising argues that neoliberal capitalism has produced significant continuities in class dynamics and subjective experience across the North-South divide—continuities that are at least as worthy of our consideration as differences arising from colonialism and its aftereffects. The book engages an array of political, economic, and cultural narratives, while focusing in particular on widely circulating Indian English-language novels and their audio-visual adaptations that demonstrate the growing currency of a neoliberal script extoling values like privatization and deregulation as conduits to both individual growth and national development, as well as freedom from poverty. With their potent enactments of personal and national maturation, contemporary Indian novels and films offer striking illustrations of the imaginative means by which the neoliberal script proliferates— even as economic precarity and inequality worsen in India, much like elsewhere in the world. Whereas literary scholars tend to approach the Indian English novel as an exemplar of resistance from the formerly colonized world, Beyond Alterity contends that far from inevitably modelling resistance, this genre’s contemporary examples instead encapsulate the challenges of disentangling literature from the all-pervasive logics and narratives of neoliberal capitalism.
The Moment Of Racial Sight
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Author : Irene Tucker
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012
The Moment Of Racial Sight written by Irene Tucker and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Moment of Racial Sight overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. Searching for the history of the constructed racial sign, Irene Tucker argues that if people instantly perceive racial differences despite knowing better, then the underlying function of race is to produce this immediate knowledge. Racial perception, then, is not just a mark of acculturation, but a part of how people know one another. Tucker begins her investigation in the Enlightenment, at the moment when skin first came to be used as the primary mark of racial difference. Through Kant and his writing on the relation of philosophy and medicine, she describes how racialized skin was created as a mechanism to enable us to perceive the likeness of individuals in a moment. From there, Tucker tells the story of instantaneous racial seeing across centuries—from the fictive bodies described but not seen in Wilkie Collins’s realism to the medium of common public opinion in John Stuart Mill, from the invention of the notion of a constructed racial sign in Darwin’s late work to the institutionalizing of racial sight on display in the HBO series The Wire. Rich with perceptive readings of unexpected texts, this ambitious book is an important intervention in the study of race.
Half Boyfriend
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Author : Judy Balan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-18
Half Boyfriend written by Judy Balan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with Fiction categories.
In Half Boyfriend a feudal rich boy from a village courts a gorgeous city brat who has a weakness for lost causes. They go through a series of pointless events and unbelievable coincidences in a dead-end plot that has to end with the chuavinist sleeping with the girl.
Revolting Subjects
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Author : Doctor Imogen Tyler
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-04-11
Revolting Subjects written by Doctor Imogen Tyler and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-11 with Social Science categories.
Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number of high-profile and in-depth case studies - including 'chavs', asylum seekers, Gypsies and Travellers, and the 2011 London riots - to examine the ways in which individuals negotiate restrictive neoliberal ideologies of selfhood. In doing so, Tyler argues for a deeper psychosocial understanding of the role of representational forms in producing marginality, social exclusion and injustice, whilst also detailing how stigmatization and scapegoating are resisted through a variety of aesthetic and political strategies. Imaginative and original, Revolting Subjects introduces a range of new insights into neoliberal societies, and will be essential reading for those concerned about widening inequalities, growing social unrest and social justice in the wider global context.
A History Of The Indian Novel In English
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Author : Ulka Anjaria
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-08
A History Of The Indian Novel In English written by Ulka Anjaria and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
A History of the Indian Novel in English traces the development of the Indian novel from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up until the present day. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes extensive essays that shed light on the legacy of English in Indian writing. Organized thematically, these essays examine how English was "made Indian" by writers who used the language to address specifically Indian concerns. Such concerns revolved around the question of what it means to be modern as well as how the novel could be used for anti-colonial activism. By the 1980s, the Indian novel in English was a global phenomenon, and India is now the third largest publisher of English-language books. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History invites readers to question conventional accounts of India's literary history.
Thomas Pynchon In Context
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Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-20
Thomas Pynchon In Context written by Inger H. Dalsgaard and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. This book is divided into three parts. The first, 'Times and Places', sets out the history and geographical contexts both for the setting of Pynchon's novels and his own life. The second, 'Culture, Politics and Society', examines twenty important and recurring themes which most clearly define Pynchon's writing - ranging from ideas in philosophy and the sciences to humor and pop culture. The final part, 'Approaches and Readings', outlines and assesses ways to read and understand Pynchon. Consisting of Forty-four essays written by some of the world's leading scholars, this volume outlines the most important contexts for understanding Pynchon's writing and helps readers interpret and reference his literary work.
Revolution Twenty 20
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Author : Chetan Bhagat
language : en
Publisher: Rupa Publications India
Release Date : 2014
Revolution Twenty 20 written by Chetan Bhagat and has been published by Rupa Publications India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
Once upon a time, in small-town India, there lived two intelligent boys. One wanted to use his intelligence to make money. One wanted to use his intelligence to start a revolution. Both of them loved the same girl. Revolution 2020 is the story of three childhood friends, Gopal, Raghav and Aarti, who struggle to find love, happiness and success in Varanasi, none of which is easily attainable in a society that favours unfairness and corruption. Gopal gives into the system, Ravi continues to fight it. Who will win?
A Fragile Inheritance
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Author : Saloni Mathur
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-22
A Fragile Inheritance written by Saloni Mathur and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-22 with Art categories.
Saloni Mathur investigates the radical work of two seminal figures—New Dehli-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur, and her husband, contemporary multimedia artist, Vivan Sundaram—to show how their approach to artistic practice and theory may inform subsequent generations and serve as a model for artistic politics in our time.
Asian American Literature In Transition 1996 2020 Volume 4
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Author : Betsy Huang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Asian American Literature In Transition 1996 2020 Volume 4 written by Betsy Huang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with History categories.
This volume examines the concerns - political, literary, and identity-based - of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.
The Deliverance Of Others
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Author : David Palumbo-Liu
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-05
The Deliverance Of Others written by David Palumbo-Liu and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.