Memory, nationalism, and narrative in contemporary South Asia
Subtitle: memory's edge
By: edited by J. Edward Mallot
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781137007056
Subjects: Collective memory and literature; Nationalism; South Asian literature (English); History and criticism
Description: Spanning multiple sites of cultural production in South Asia, this book investigates the deeply ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Kamila Shamsie and Amitav Ghosh create unusual ways to indict nationalism's sinsby accessing and encoding the past and in so doing, he expands memory studies in new, provocative directions.