1st Edition
Literary Theory and Criticism Recent Writings from South Asia
Introduction: Theory, Criticism, and Engaging with the Texts
Arun Gupto
Part I: Theory
1. DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation
Homi Bhabha
2. Belatedness as Possibility: Subaltern Histories, Once Again
Dipesh Chakrabarty
3. The Blurring of Distinctions: The Artwork and Religious Icons in Contemporary India
Tapati Guha Thakurta
4. Woman and Freedom
Firdous Azim
5. Hyphenated post-colonial: A Divergent Perspective
Tariq Amin-Khan
6. Grassroots Texts: Ethnographic Ruptures and Transnational Feminist Imaginaries
Piya Chatterjee
Part II: Criticism
7. Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse
Homi Bhabha
8. Epilogue: The Tantra of Contemplative Cultural Critique
Lata Mani
9. Postcolonial Hybridity: Midnight’s Children
Harish Trivedi
10. Fragmenting Nations and Lives: Sunlight on a Broken Column
Vrinda Nabar
11. Puyakante Wijenaike: Spectral Spaces
Minoli Salgado
12. Chokher Bali: The Novel of the New Age
Radha Chakrabarty
Biography
Arun Gupto is Professor of English at the Institute of Advanced Communication, Education, and Research, Pokhara University, Nepal. He is a former faculty member at the Central Department of English, Tribhuwan University. His areas of research are literary theory, postcolonial studies, and South Asian Studies. His recent books include Goddesses of Kathmandu Valley: Grace, Rage, Knowledge (Routledge, 2016). He has also written and directed a series of documentaries on South Asian Art and Culture titled Art of the Lake (2014), Four Gray Walls Four Gray Towers (post-production), and Anger and the Mahatma (post-production).
