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245 0 0 _aAlternative Indias :
_bWriting, Nation and Communalism /
_cedited by Peter Morey, Alex Tickell.
246 3 _aWriting, Nation and Communalism
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2005.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCross/Cultures ;
_v82
490 1 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aAcknowledgements -- Peter MOREY and Alex TICKELL: Introduction -- Anshuman A. MONDAL: The Limits of Secularism and the Construction of Composite National Identity in India -- Alex TICKELL: The Discovery of Aryavarta: Hindu Nationalism and Early Indian Fiction in English -- Elleke BOEHMER: "First Realise Your Need": Manju Kapur's Erotic Nation -- Shirley CHEW: "Cutting Across Time": Memory, Narrative, and Identity in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies -- Amina YAQIN: The Communalization and Disintegration of Urdu in Anita Desai's In Custody -- Ashok BERY: "Reflexive Worlds": The Indias of A.K. Ramanujan -- Peter MOREY: Communalism, Corruption and Duty in Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters -- Sujala SINGH: The Routes of National Identity in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines -- Ralph J. CRANE: Inscribing a Sikh India: An Alternative Reading of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan -- Sharmila SEN: No Passports, No Visas: The Line of Control Between India and Pakistan in Contemporary Bombay Cinema -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.
520 _aThe debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Indian writing in English has fostered a long tradition of political dissent, and has repeatedly questioned ethnocentric, culturally exclusive forms of political identification, few critics have considered how this literature engages directly with communalism, or charted the literary-political response to key events such as the Babri Masjid / Ramjanmabhumi affair and the recent growth of popular forms of Hindu nationalism. The essays collected in Alternative Indias break new ground in studies of Indian literature and film by discussing how key authors offer contending, 'alternative' visions of India and how poetry, fiction and film can revise both the communal and secular versions of national belonging that define current debates about 'Indianness'. Including contributions from international scholars distinguished in the field of South Asian literary studies, and featuring an informative introduction charting the parallel developments of writing, the nation and communal consciousness, Alternative Indias offers a fresh perspective on the connections and discontinuities between culture and politics in the world's biggest democracy.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCommunalism in literature.
650 0 _aNationalism in literature.
650 0 _aReligion and literature
_zIndia.
650 0 _aWriting in literature.
700 1 _aMorey, Peter,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aTickell, Alex,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tAlternative Indias : Writing, Nation and Communalism.
_dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2005
_z9789042019270
_w(OCoLC)63764153
830 0 _aCross/Cultures ;
_v82.
830 0 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401202596
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_d30043