Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity

Critical Perspectives from India
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-63548-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India brings together essays written by academicians and scholars from India to scrutinize how global modernities have been shaped since World War II, from the Indian perspective.

It examines the literary musings of Anglophone writers hailing from various parts of the globe whose diverse voices present compelling narratives on modernity vis-à-vis the human condition. This volume brings together critical essays on writers such as Girish Karnad, Anita Desai, Anita Nair, and Jean Arasanayagam to examine the South Asian experience; by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Naguib Mahfouz to explore the African and Arabic world order; by Jane Harrison and Wesley Enoch to address the Australian aboriginal condition; by William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Sarah Kane to scrutinize British cultural politics; by Jamaica Kincaid and Elizabeth Acevedo to highlight Latin American and Caribbean modernity, and last but not the least, by John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and Mary Gordon to analyze North American politico-religious experiences of modernity. The diverse themes in this book therefore touch upon historical trauma, religious revisioning, masculinity, feminist debates, gender studies, ethnic discrimination and diversity, and caste and class politics, among many others.

The book’s varied themes are united by the fact that they all converse with global and transnational dynamics shaped by post-war modernity that define our world today. The book crafts narratives on contemporary global literatures and the modern conditions they represent and does so from the vantage point of postmillennial Indian literary scholarship.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chatterjee, Srirupa

Chigurupati, Sharada

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Srirupa Chatterjee; I. Postcolonial Identity Politics: Modernity and Poetry from South Asia; 1. Nativist Modernity in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra - Sarada Thallam; 2. Interrogating Identity Politics: A Reading of Jean Arasanayagam’s Select Poems - Sharada Chigurupati; II. Indian Fiction and Postcolonial Modernity: The Twentieth Century and Beyond; 3. Girish Karnad’s Ecomythological Sphere: A Structuralist Study of Hayavadana and The Fire and the Rain - Rekha Karim; 4. Anita Desai’s Perspective on the Holocaust in Baumgartner’s Bombay - Tiasa Bal and Gurumurthy Neelakantan; 5.Gendering Energy: Mobility and Feminist Modernities in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe - Swaralipi Nandi; 6. Dalit Life Writing: Local Moorings, Global Contexts - Rohini Mokashi-Punekar and Himaxee Bordoloi; III. Cultural Modernity and Gender Politics in African and Arabic Literature; 7. Empowering Humanity through Feminism: Modernity and Sexual Politics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Writings - Aswathi Velayathikode Anand; 8. Incarcerated Lives, Thwarted Desires: Masculinity, Modernity, and the War in Midaq Alley - Shailendra Kumar Singh; IV. Modernity, Assimilatory Politics, and Trauma in Contemporary Australian Drama; 9. History, Memory, and Storytelling: Performing Trauma and 'Stolen Generation' Narratives in Jane Harrison's Stolen and Wesley Enoch and Mailman's The 7 Stages of Grieving - Sibendu Chakraborty; V. Britain, Political Modernity, and Literary Responses; 10. Utopia vs Dystopia: A Carnivalesque Study of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies - Rama N. H. Alapati; 11. Negotiating traumatic memories of migration in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills - Rima Bhattacharya; 12. The Postface of History and the Posthumous Society: Aesthetic Terrorism and the Post-ideological Condition in Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Cleansed - Arnab Ray; VI. Cultural Modernity and Voices of Resistance in Caribbean Literature; 13. From Space to A Small Place: An Ecocritical Study of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place - Kotti Sree Ramesh; 14. Subverting Cultures of Toxic Masculinity: Father Figures and Caribbean Gender Norms in the Novels of Elizabeth Acevedo - Vinita Vincent; VII. From Postwar Christianity to Millennial Postsecularism: Spiritual Modernity and North America; 15. From Controversy to Credibility: Counterculture Modernities in John Updike’s Couples - Srirupa Chatterjee and Swathi Krishna S.;16. Exploring the Postsecular: The Modern Self, Community and Connectedness in E. L. Doctorow’s City of God and Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men - Nilanjana Ghosal; 17. Redeeming Cloistered Womanhood: Spiritual Modernity in Mary Gordon’s Pearl and There Your Heart Lies - Srirupa Chatterjee and Aswathi Velayathikode Anand; Conclusion; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Srirupa Chatterjee is Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Body Image Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India. Her books include edited volumes titled Female Body Image in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture (2024) and Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India (2023).

Sharada Chigurupati is Professor at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. She has published research articles in national and international journals. She is the lead editor of American Literary Studies in Post Millennial India: Critical Perspectives (2023).