Rethinking modernity
By: edited by Santosh Gupta, Prafulla C. Kar, Parul Dave Mukherji ; [conference organized by Dept. of English, University of Rajasthan].
Contributors: Gupta, Santosh, 1945-; Kar, P. C.; Dave Mukherji, Parul.; University of Rajasthan. Dept. of English.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pencraft International
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Modernism (Literature) -- India -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Papers presented at the conference; chiefly on reflections on modernism in 20th century Indic English literature.
Notes: Contents Foreword. Introduction. 1. Mourning a metaphor the revolution is over/Martin Jay. 2. The underside of modernity Adorno Heidegger and Dussel/Fred Dallmayr. 3. Discourses of Modernity & the New: Performing Colonization from Morocco to Iraq/Julian Vigo 4. Midnight's Orphans or a postcolonialism worth its name/S. Shankar. 5. Translatability in an uneven world/R. Radhakrishnan. 6. Edward Said area studies and postcoloniality/Gaurav Desai. 7. Homoeroticism and the construction of alterity on reading a passage to India and the home and the world/Jaspal Kaur Singh. 8. Refiguring modernity in the postcolonial space a reading of gender and nation in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days/Purna Chowdhury. 9. The discourse of food and matrilineages in contemporary women's writing/Sudha Rai. 10. Modernity in the work of Amitav Ghosh/N.K. Rajalakshmi. 11. Modernity and third world women Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta/K. Nirupa Rani. 12. Historical memory and religio political interpretations of the Ghurids in Northern India/Alka Patel. 13. Gendered bodies and cultural claims visuality in public culture/Parul Dave Mukherji. 14. AIDS modernity and public discourse in India/Dilip K. Das. 15. The informatic sublime identity in the posthuman age/Pramod K. Nayar. 16. The reinstatement of rationality cognitive science rethinks modernity/Liza Das. 17. Abraham Lincoln's identity as a model for modernity/William D. Pederson. 18. Suicide and suicide bombings issues of modernity in nineteenth century sociological thinking/Mandakini V. Jha. 19. Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost a postcolonial review of modernity/Santosh Gupta. 20. Modernity redux empire and the end(s) of postmodernism/Nagesh Rao.