Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia [electronic resource] /
Mallot, J. Edward.author.
Mallot, J. Edward.
This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; I: The Limits of Memory; 2 The City Beautiful: Remembering and Dismembering Chandigarh; 3 I Didn't Kill Gandhi: Memory and the Bollywood Assassin; 4 A. Sivanandan, Romesh Gunesekera, and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Histories; II: The Texts of Memory; 5 Salman Rushdie's Alternative Historiographies; 6 What Bodies Remember: Michael Ondaatje, Shauna Singh Baldwin, and Corporeal Testimony; 7 "A Special Enchantment in Lines": The Maps of Memory; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature—Philosophy.
Oriental literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
Asian Literature.