The Indian Postcolonial

Description

This collection offers an in-depth investigation of the work produced with regard to a particular political and national location of postcoloniality, offering a new direction for the subject.

Focusing on the presentation of postcolonial theory within an Indian context, this Critical Reader includes sections on visual cultures, translating cultural traditions, the ethical text, and global/cosmopolitan worlds. Each section collects work from contemporary critics on these issues, and is prefaced with a short introduction highlighting the part they play in the national and international postcolonial debate.

Contributors include: Partha Chatterjee, Sanjayit Ray, M. Madhava Prasad, Aamir Mufti, Vinayak Chaturvedi, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Aniket Jaiware, Gayatri Spivak, Udaya Kumar, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Ashis Nandy, Amit Chaudhuri, Nivedita Menon, Ranajit Guha and new work by Robert Young, Tapati Guha Thakurta, and Santanu Das.

Contents

Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri Part 1 - Visual Cultures Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 1. Partha Chatterjee. ‘Nationalist Icon to Secular Image’ 2. Tapati Guha Thakurta. ‘Religious Icon and Art: The Case of M.F. Hussain' 3. Robert Young, ‘Sanjayit Ray’ 4. M. Madhava Prasad, ‘Fan Bhakti and Subaltern Sovereignty: Enthusiasm as a Political Factor’ Part 2 - Translating Cultural Traditions Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 5. Aamir Mufti, ‘Auerbach in Istanbul’ 6. Vinayak Chaturvedi, ‘Vinayak and Me’ 7. Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘Belatedness as Possibility: Subaltern Histories, once again’ 8. Aniket Jaiware, ‘Of Demons and Angels' Part 3 - The Ethical Text Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 9. Gayatri Spivak, ‘Ethics and Politics in Tagore and Coetzee’ 10. Udaya Kumar, ‘Self, Body and Inner Sense’. 　Studies in History' 11. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, ‘Gandhian Ethics’ 12. Ashis Nandy, ‘Humiliation: The Politics and Cultural Psychology of the Limits of Human Degradation’ Part 4 - Global/cosmopolitan worlds Introduction – Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri 13. Amit Chaudhuri, ‘The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism’ 14. Santanu Das, ‘India, Empire, and First World War writing’ 15. Nivedita Menon, ‘Thinking through the Postnation’ 16. Ranajit Guha, ‘A Colonial City and its Times’

Related Subjects

1. Post-Colonial Studies
2. Cultural Studies
3. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies