Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering and South Asian Narratives, Ramu Nagappan
Автор: Ramu Nagappan Название: Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering and South Asian Narratives ISBN: 0295996153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295996158 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Who has the right to speak about trauma? As cultural products, narratives of social suffering paradoxically release us from responsibility while demanding that we examine our own connectedness to the circumstances that produce suffering. As a result, the text's act of "speaking havoc" rebounds in unsettling ways.
Speaking Havoc investigates how literary and cinematic fictions intervene in the politics and reception of social suffering. Amitav Ghosh's modernist novel The Shadow Lines (1988), A Fine Balance (1995) by Rohinton Mistry, the short stories of Saadat Hasan Manto, Salman Rushdie's postmodernist novel Shame (1983), and the "spectacular" films of Maniratnam: each bears witness to social violence in South Asia. These works confront squarely a number of ethical dilemmas in representations of social suffering--the catastrophes and innumerable minor tragedies that arise from clashes among religious and ethnic communities.
Focusing on central events such as the Partition of 1947, the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, and more recent religious conflicts between India and Pakistan, Nagappan demonstrates the differing ways that narratives engage--often in ambiguous and problematic ways--the political violence that has marked the last fifty years of South Asian history. Is it possible to tell fully the stories of those who have died and those who have survived? Can writing really act as a counter to silence? In his compassionate engagement with these concerns, Nagappan demonstrates the relevance of literature and literary studies to fundamental sociological, anthropological, and political issues.
With its interdisciplinary scope, historical perspective, and lucid style, Speaking Havoc is destined to become a foundational text for scholars of South Asian studies and postcolonial and cultural studies, and for readers interested in trauma and social suffering as well as in the literature, films, and histories that take this field as their topic.
Автор: Chatterjee, Sukla Название: Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India ISBN: 0367586304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367586300 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Struthers, Alison E. C. Название: Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America ISBN: 1032085517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032085517 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia, illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented explosion of recent interest. It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.
Автор: Seck, Mamarame Название: Narratives as muslim practice in senegal ISBN: 1433119900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433119903 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 13801.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sufi oral discourse in Senegal is overwhelmingly dominated by stories about past and current shaykhs. These oral texts, deeply rooted in their context of production, which dictates their form and functions, are still generally unknown to scholars of Islam in Senegal and West Africa. By filling this gap, this book contributes to the discourse of religions in general and Sufi Islam in particular.
Автор: Moji, Polo B. (university Of Cape Town, South Africa) Название: Gender and the spatiality of blackness in contemporary afrofrench narratives ISBN: 0367637537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367637538 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Boxer, C.R. Название: The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622 ISBN: 1409414787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409414780 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Boxer, C.R. Название: South China in the Sixteenth Century (1550-1575) ISBN: 1409414728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409414728 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Because the movements of southerners-and people in general-are controlled not only by physical boundaries marked on a map but also by narratives that define movement, narrative is central in building and sustaining borders and in breaking them down. In Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity, author Mary Weaks-Baxter analyzes narratives by and about those who left the South and how those narratives have remade what it means to be southern. Drawing from a broad range of narratives, including literature, newspaper articles, art, and music, Weaks-Baxter outlines how these displacement narratives challenged concepts of southern nationhood and redefined southern identity. Close attention is paid to how depictions of the South, particularly in the media and popular culture, prompted southerners to leave the region and changed perceptions of southerners to outsiders as well as how southerners saw themselves. Through an examination of narrative, Weaks-Baxter reveals the profound effect gender, race, and class have on the nature of the migrant's journey, the adjustment of the migrant, and the ultimate decision of the migrant either to stay put or return home, and connects the history of border crossings to the issues being considered in today's national landscape.
Описание: This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates differentiated readings of blackness in European spaces. The book explores the spatial negotiations of Afroeuropean woman in France, through the figure of the black flaneuse.
Описание: It is often assumed that classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic. However, as Bihani Sarkar makes clear in this book, this is far from the case. In the first study of tragedy in classical Sanskrit literature, Sarkar draws on a wide range of Sanskrit dramas, poems and treatises – much of them translated for the first time into English – to provide a complete history of the tragic in Indian literature from the second to the fourth centuries.
Looking at Kalidasa, the most celebrated writer of Sanskrit poetry and drama (kavya), this book argues that constructions of absence and grief are central to Kalidasa’s compositions and that these ‘tragic middles’ are much more sophisticated than previously understood. For Kalidasa, tragic middles are modes of thinking, in which he confronts theological and philosophical issues. Through a close literary analysis of the tragic middle in five of his works, the Abhijnanasakuntala, the Raghuva?sa, the Kumarasambhava, the Vikramorvasiya and the Meghaduta, Sarkar demonstrates the importance of tragedy for classical Indian poetry and drama in the early centuries of the common era. These depictions from the Indian literary sphere, by their particular function and interest in the phenomenology of grief, challenge and reshape in a wholly new way our received understanding of tragedy.
Описание: Discusses the genre of narratives of freedom and examines women`s relationships to the community as they seek to illustrate a collective free identity. The author argues that these texts represent a sense of civil rights that emerges prior even to the ideas of racial uplift that reached a height for women in the late nineteenth century and moved into the twentieth century.
Автор: Leane Название: Antarctica in Fiction ISBN: 1107507715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107507715 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This comprehensive and engaging analysis of a wide range of Antarctic fiction - from lost-race romances to espionage thrillers to travellers` tales to horror fantasies - is essential reading for anyone interested in the history, literature and culture of Antarctica and the polar regions.
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