{"id":1710,"date":"2017-03-16T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2017-03-16T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T17:23:09","slug":"book-announcement-heritage-and-ruptures-in-indian-literature-culture-and-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-heritage-and-ruptures-in-indian-literature-culture-and-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Announcement: Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cornelius Crowley, Geetha Ganapathy-Dor\u00e9 and Michel Naumann (eds.), Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema<\/em><\/h1>\n

Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>This book investigates the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. Through the various methods adopted, the objects and moments examined, it questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past, to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and also the figuring\/imagining of a possible future. \u2028\u2028The volume engages with this general cultural condition, in relation both to the subcontinent\u2019s current \u201csynchronic\u201d reality and to certain aspects of the culture\u2019s underlying diachronic determinations. It also reveals how the multiple heritages are negotiated through the subcontinent\u2019s long-term sedimentational history. It scrutinizes both conservative interpretations of heritage and a possibly incremental enrichment, and the additional possibility of a mode of appropriation open to a dialectic of creative destruction, in which the patrimonial imperative is challenged, leaving room for processes of renewal and rejuvenation.\u2028\u2028The collection is organized around four major topics: Orientalism, addressed by way of the Tamil Epic Manimekalai, through the evocation of the Hastings Circle and views on a possible Hindu-Muslim unity sketched out by Sayyid Ahmed Khan; modernism in Indian and Burmese texts written in English; pictorial art, through a consideration of the work of some modern and contemporary Indian artists and British Asian and Indian film directors; and, finally, the current state of a body of critical thinking on gender.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/h4>\n

Introduction<\/p>\n

Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter One: In the City They Come and Go: Dialogical Modernism\u00a0in Indian English Poetry
\nDebasish Lahiri<\/p>\n

Chapter Two: Three Generations of Migrancy in Kiran Desai\u2019s The Inheritance of Loss<\/em>: The Focus on Material Things
\nCelia Wallhead<\/p>\n

Chapter Three: Community Ruptures: Individual Refashionings of Postcolonial Diasporic Life in Hanif Kureishi\u2019s Something to Tell You<\/em>
\nMaria-Sabina Draga Alexandru<\/p>\n

Chapter Four: A Shameful and Deadly Legacy: Rape, Incest and Parricide in Achmat dangor’s Bitter Fruit<\/em> and Shani Mootoo\u2019s Cereus Blooms at Night <\/em>
\nTina Harpin<\/p>\n

Chapter Five: \u2018Who shall inherit Bengal?\u2019 A Reading of Anuradha Roy\u2019s An Atlas of Impossible Longing<\/em>
\nEvelyne Hanquart-Turner<\/p>\n

Chapter Six: Transcending the Dual Heritage of Exile in Jhumpa Lahiri\u2019s Fiction: The Imperious Desire for a Chosen Realm
\nAhmed Mulla<\/p>\n

Chapter Seven: Family, Geography, and Ideology in Jhumpa Lahiri\u2019s The Lowland|
\n<\/em>Geetha Ganapathy-Dor\u00e9<\/p>\n

Chapter Eight: Cooperation of Opposites: The Home and the Foreign in R. K. Narayan\u2019s Novels
\nLudmila Voln\u00e1<\/p>\n

Chapter Nine: The Rupture Within: Manimekalai\u2019<\/em>s Polemics with Buddhism
\nR. Azhagarasan<\/p>\n

\u00a0Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter Ten: The Legacy of the Hastings Circle: Heritage or Rupture?
\nMadhu Jain Benoit<\/p>\n

Chapter Eleven: Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan\u2019s New Approach to the Muslim-Christian Relationship in the Context of British India: A Rupture with Old Practices?
\nBelkacem Belmekki<\/p>\n

Chapter Twelve: Ruptured History and the Politics of Language in Myanmar
\nShruti Das<\/p>\n

\u00a0Cinema<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter Thirteen: Heritage and Ruptures: The Hero\u2019s Identity Negotiations in the Cinematic Adaptations of Devdas<\/em>
\nJitka de Pr\u00e9val<\/p>\n

Chapter Fourteen: Heritage or Rupture in Two British Asian Films: East is East <\/em>and West is West<\/em>
\nCaroline Trech<\/p>\n

\u00a0Theoretical Considerations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter Fifteen: Heritage and Ruptures: A Fine Balance Difficult to Obtain (and some questions around gender)
\nRada Ivekovi\u0107<\/p>\n

Notes on Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstracts<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cornelius Crowley, Geetha Ganapathy-Dor\u00e9 and Michel Naumann (eds.), Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 This book investigates the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. Through the various methods adopted, the objects and moments examined, it questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}