Clearing a space : reflections on India, literature and culture
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Clearing a space : reflections on India, literature and culture
（The past in the present）
Peter Lang, 2008
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [312]-316
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays assembled in "Clearing a Space", written over the last fifteen years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The writer treats himself as a specimen for an exploration of what it means to be a modern Indian in relation to the West. Personal memoir gives readers a glance into a nation's history; his relationship to the West provides insight into India's national relationship to the West; and, his struggle to define 'Indianness' for himself becomes a paradigm of searching for Indian identity.With the same elegance and intelligence for which the author has become known, Chaudhuri writes anecdotally in these essays about Indian popular culture and high culture, travel and location in Paris, Bombay, Dublin, Calcutta and Berlin, empire and nationalism, Indian and Western cinema, music, art and literature, politics, race, cosmopolitanism, urban landscapes, Hollywood and Bollywood, Anglophone India, internationalism, globalisation, the Indian English tradition that pre-dates Rushdie, post-colonialism and much more.
Table of Contents
Contents: Poles of Recovery - In the Waiting-Room of History: On Provincializing Europe - The Flute of Modernity: Tagore and the Middle Class - The East as a Career: On 'Strangeness' in Indian Writing - Argufying: On Amartya Sen and the Deferral of an Indian Modernity - This is Not Music: The Emergence of the Domain of 'Culture' - 'Huge Baggy Monster': Mimetic Theories of the Indian Novel after Rushdie - Two Giant Brothers: Tagore's Revisionist 'Orient' - Travels in the Subculture of Modernity - Thoughts in a Temple: Hinduism in the Free Market - On the Nature of Indian Gothic: The Imagination of Ashis Nandy - 'Hollywood aur Bollywood' - The View from Malabar Hill - Stories of Domicile - Notes on the Novel after Globalization - Anti-Fusion - Arun Kolatkar and the Tradition of Loitering - Learning to Write: V.S. Naipaul, Vernacular Artist - A Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter: On R.K. Narayan - 'A Feather! A Very Feather upon the Face!': On Kipling - Returning to Earth: The Poetry of Jibanananda Das - Women in Love as Post-Human Essay - Champion of Hide and Seek: Raj Kamal Jha's Surrealism - Midnight at Marble Arch: On The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - Beyond 'Confidence': Rushdie and the Creation Myth of Indian English Writing.
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