Heterotopias

Bhagavan, Manu (Hrsg.):
Heterotopias : Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia / ed. by Manu Bhagavan. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010. - ca. 232 S.
ISBN 9780198066927
Rs. 650,00
US$ 14,44 (Eastern Book Corp.)
US$ 45,00 (K.K. Agencies)
DDC: 320.540954
-- Angekündigt für Juni 2010; laut OUP USA angekündigt für November 2010 --

Beschreibung
This volume investigates the diverse discourses of identity politics that relate the history of nationalism to current concerns and debates.
   The essays are laid out as a series of three inter-related conversations. Focusing upon the peripheries of modern India - Assam and Jammu and Kashmir - the first explores the ways in which people living on the margins of a homogenizing nation-state critique the centre and carve out different spaces of experience. The next part analyses the works of Mirza Ghalib and epic traditions in south India to delineate the plurality of narrative and consciousness in literary production.
   The last section interrogates the writings of Muhammad Iqbal and Mahatma Gandhi to shed new light on their ideas of justice and to situate them in the moment of manoeuvre in nationalist discourse in late colonial India. The volume concludes with a discussion of what it means to construct a post-history of communalism. The essays taken together present an engaging account of the multiplicity of historical experiences in India both within and without the discourse of nationalism. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Manu Bhagavan
PART I
   1. Yasmin Saikia: Local Nationalism or Secessionism? History, Politics, and Identity Struggle of Tai-Ahom in Assam
   2. Chitralekha Zutshi: Kashmir and Kashmiriyat: The Politics of Diversity in South Asia
PART II
   3. Paula Richman: Against the Current: Sita and her Foils in Modern Tamil and Telugu Short Stories
   4. Syed Akbar Hyder: Ghalib and his Interlocutors
PART III
   5. Faisal Devji: Muhammad Iqbal and the Crisis of Representation in British India
   6. Ajay Skaria: The Strange Violence of Satyagraha: Gandhi, Itihaas, and History
Conclusion
The Post-history of Communalism by Gyanendra Pandey
Contributors
Note.

Herausgeber
MANU BHAGAVAN is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center-The City University of New York (CUNY), USA. Homepage; profile page.

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